Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler

Titel: Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler : the diplomacy of Edvard Beneš in the 1930s / Igor Lukes
Verfasser:
Ausgabe: 1. [Dr.]
Veröffentlicht: New York ˜[u.a.]œ : Oxford Univ. Press, 1996
Umfang: XII, 318 S. : Ill., Kt.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 0195102665 ; 0195102673
Lokale Klassifikation: 22 7 L ; 2 B 56
  • Abbreviations
  • p. xiii
  • 1
  • Czechoslovak-Soviet Contacts from the End of World War I to Adolf Hitler's Machtergreifung, 1918-1933
  • p. 3
  • The Hillerson Red Cross Mission in Prague
  • p. 7
  • Prague's Attitude toward the Bolsheviks
  • p. 11
  • From Diplomacy to Confrontation
  • p. 18
  • 2
  • Dangerous Relations: Benes and Stalin in Hitler's Shadow, 1933-1935
  • p. 33
  • At Last: De Jure Recognition and Its Consequences
  • p. 36
  • Benes's Ostpolitik
  • p. 40
  • The Czechoslovak-Soviet Treaty of 1935 and Its Mysterious Stipulation
  • p. 44
  • Prague's Pact with Moscow
  • p. 50
  • The Aftermath of Czechoslovakia's Agreement with the Soviet Union
  • p. 51
  • Stalin's Wooing of Edvard Benes: The 1935 Trip to Moscow
  • p. 52
  • Stalin Was "Gracious, Thoughtful, Accommodating,"
  • p. 55
  • 3
  • Between the Agile East and the Apathetic West: Central Europe, 1935-1937
  • p. 67
  • The CPC and the 7th Congress of the Comintern
  • p. 68
  • Czechoslovakia and the Frigid West
  • p. 79
  • "Lord Halalifax,"
  • p. 81
  • 4
  • Benes and the Tukhachevsky Affair: New Evidence from the Archives in Prague and Moscow
  • p. 91
  • Znamia Rossii and Other Tremors before the Earthquake
  • p. 92
  • Tukhachevsky and the Secret Negotiations between Prague and Berlin
  • p. 96
  • President Edvard Benes and the Tukhachevsky Affair
  • p. 99
  • 5
  • The Fateful Spring of 1938: Austrian Anschlu[beta] and the May Crisis
  • p. 113
  • From the Death of Thomas G. Masaryk to New Year's Day 1938
  • p. 116
  • The Anschlu[beta] of Austria
  • p. 119
  • Czechoslovakia after the Anschlu[beta]
  • p. 126
  • Moscow's Reaction to the Anschlu[beta]
  • p. 130
  • Konrad Henlein's Eight Points: Demand the Impossible
  • p. 139
  • May Day 1938: Gottwald in Moscow, Henlein in the Sudetenland
  • p. 141
  • The Partial Mobilization of May 1938
  • p. 143
  • The May Mobilization and Analysts of the Second Bureau
  • p. 148
  • 6
  • Lord Runciman and Comrade Zhdanov: Western and Soviet Policies Toward Czechoslovakia from June to Early September 1938
  • p. 173
  • France: Firm Statements of Support on Shaky Foundations
  • p. 174
  • Great Britain Takes Charge
  • p. 177
  • The British Intervention: Lord Runciman in Prague
  • p. 179
  • The Three-Pronged Soviet Strategy from June to Early September 1938
  • p. 190
  • 7
  • September 1938
  • p. 209
  • Hitler at Nuremberg and a State of Emergency in the Sudetenland
  • p. 209
  • Berchtesgaden: A Step to Munich
  • p. 214
  • The Franco-British Proposal
  • p. 218
  • Prague's Response to the Proposal and the Soviet Union
  • p. 223
  • The Franco-British Ultimatum and Its Consequences
  • p. 225
  • Godesberg: The Last Missed Opportunity
  • p. 233
  • Folding the Flag: From the Sportpalast to Munich
  • p. 242
  • The Yawning Affair at Munich
  • p. 249
  • Agony in Prague
  • p. 253
  • The Man Who Won at Munich: Stalin and the Four Power Act
  • p. 256
  • The Victims of the Munich Agreement
  • p. 260
  • Sources and Bibliography
  • p. 277
  • Index
  • p. 311