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Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler : the diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930s / Igor Lukes.
LIBRA DB2078.G3 L85 1996
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DB2078.G3 L85 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lukes, Igor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beneš, Edvard, 1884-1948.
- Beneš, Edvard.
- Czechoslovakia--Foreign relations--Germany.
- Czechoslovakia.
- International relations.
- Germany.
- Germany--Foreign relations--Czechoslovakia.
- Czechoslovakia--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Czechoslovakia.
- Czechoslovakia--Foreign relations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Contents:
- 1 Czechoslovak-Soviet Contacts from the End of World War I to Adolf Hitler's Machtergreifung, 1918-1933 3
- The Hillerson Red Cross Mission in Prague 7
- Prague's Attitude toward the Bolsheviks 11
- From Diplomacy to Confrontation 18
- 2 Dangerous Relations: Benes and Stalin in Hitler's Shadow, 1933-1935 33
- At Last: De Jure Recognition and Its Consequences 36
- Benes's Ostpolitik 40
- The Czechoslovak-Soviet Treaty of 1935 and Its Mysterious Stipulation 44
- Prague's Pact with Moscow 50
- The Aftermath of Czechoslovakia's Agreement with the Soviet Union 51
- Stalin's Wooing of Edvard Benes: The 1935 Trip to Moscow 52
- Stalin Was "Gracious, Thoughtful, Accommodating," 55
- 3 Between the Agile East and the Apathetic West: Central Europe, 1935-1937 67
- The CPC and the 7th Congress of the Comintern 68
- Czechoslovakia and the Frigid West 79
- "Lord Halalifax," 81
- 4 Benes and the Tukhachevsky Affair: New Evidence from the Archives in Prague and Moscow 91
- Znamia Rossii and Other Tremors before the Earthquake 92
- Tukhachevsky and the Secret Negotiations between Prague and Berlin 96
- President Edvard Benes and the Tukhachevsky Affair 99
- 5 The Fateful Spring of 1938: Austrian Anschlu[beta] and the May Crisis 113
- From the Death of Thomas G. Masaryk to New Year's Day 1938 116
- The Anschlu[beta] of Austria 119
- Czechoslovakia after the Anschlu[beta] 126
- Moscow's Reaction to the Anschlu[beta] 130
- Konrad Henlein's Eight Points: Demand the Impossible 139
- May Day 1938: Gottwald in Moscow, Henlein in the Sudetenland 141
- The Partial Mobilization of May 1938 143
- The May Mobilization and Analysts of the Second Bureau 148
- 6 Lord Runciman and Comrade Zhdanov: Western and Soviet Policies Toward Czechoslovakia from June to Early September 1938 173
- France: Firm Statements of Support on Shaky Foundations 174
- Great Britain Takes Charge 177
- The British Intervention: Lord Runciman in Prague 179
- The Three-Pronged Soviet Strategy from June to Early September 1938 190
- 7 September 1938 209
- Hitler at Nuremberg and a State of Emergency in the Sudetenland 209
- Berchtesgaden: A Step to Munich 214
- The Franco-British Proposal 218
- Prague's Response to the Proposal and the Soviet Union 223
- The Franco-British Ultimatum and Its Consequences 225
- Godesberg: The Last Missed Opportunity 233
- Folding the Flag: From the Sportpalast to Munich 242
- The Yawning Affair at Munich 249
- Agony in Prague 253
- The Man Who Won at Munich: Stalin and the Four Power Act 256
- The Victims of the Munich Agreement 260.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-309) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195102665
- 0195102673
- OCLC:
- 32551356
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