Format:
1 online resource (349 pages)
ISBN:
9780199762057
Content:
This is a diplomatic history of events leading up to the Munich crisis of 1938 in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland. While much has been written on this period, this book will be the most comprehensive to date and also the first to integrate a full understanding of the Czech role with wider events.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Czechoslovak-Soviet Contacts from the End of World War I to Adolf Hitler's Machtergreifung, 1918-1933 -- The Hillerson Red Cross Mission in Prague -- Prague's Attitude toward the Bolsheviks -- From Diplomacy to Confrontation -- 2 Dangerous Relations: Beneš and Stalin in Hitler's Shadow, 1933-1935 -- At Last: De Jure Recognition and Its Consequences -- Beneš's Ostpolitik -- The Czechoslovak-Soviet Treaty of 1935 and Its Mysterious Stipulation -- Prague's Pact with Moscow -- The Aftermath of Czechoslovakia's Agreement with the Soviet Union -- Stalin's Wooing of Edvard Beneš: The 1935 Trip to Moscow -- Stalin Was "Gracious, Thoughtful, Accommodating -- 3 Between the Agile East and the Apathetic West: Central Europe, 1935-1937 -- The CPC and the 7th Congress of the Comintern -- Czechoslovakia and the Frigid West -- Lord Halalifax -- 4 Beneš and the Tukhachevsky Affair: New Evidence from the Archives in Prague and Moscow -- Znamia Rossii and Other Tremors before the Earthquake -- Tukhachevsky and the Secret Negotiations between Prague and Berlin -- President Edvard Beneš and the Tukhachevsky Affair -- 5 The Fateful Spring of 1938: Austrian Anschluß and the May Crisis -- From the Death of Thomas G. Masaryk to New Year's Day 1938 -- The Anschluß of Austria -- Czechoslovakia after the Anschluß -- Moscow's Reaction to the Anschluß -- Konrad Henlein's Eight Points: Demand the Impossible -- May Day 1938: Gottwald in Moscow, Henlein in the Sudetenland -- The Partial Mobilization of May 1938 -- The May Mobilization and Analysts of the Second Bureau -- 6 Lord Runciman and Comrade Zhdanov: Western and Soviet Policies Toward Czechoslovakia from June to Early September 1938 -- France: Firm Statements of Support on Shaky Foundations -- Great Britain Takes Charge -- The British Intervention: Lord Runciman in Prague.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195102673
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195102673
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=679529
