The Baltic states and Weimar Ostpolitik
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The Baltic states and Weimar Ostpolitik
Cambridge University Press, 1987
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 243-265
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The historical and geographical significance of the Baltic Sea as a Russian gateway to the West has sometimes overshadowed its reciprocal significance as a German window on the East, but in the period after the First World War the Baltic was to become of critical importance to a German state then shorn of much international authority. This study shows in detail how the Weimar Republic sought to develop its economic influence in the newly independent Baltic states, to ensure the retention of a vital 'springboard' into Russia after 1918. At one level this book therefore presents a fresh chapter in the chronicle of Weimar-Soviet relations. In addition, however, Germany's highly successful trade policy involved competition with other Western powers, notably Britain, and necessarily had important implications for inter-war international politics: analysis of Polish and French diplomatic intentions in the region leads Dr Hiden to a wider evaluation of the whole relationship between trade and foreign policy in Weimar Ostpolitik.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. The Politics of Peacemaking 1919-20: 1. German-Russian perspectives
- 2. The Baltic German as Auslandsdeutsche
- Part II. Trade and Foreign Policy 1920-3: 3. The springboard concept
- 4. The politics of provisional trade treaties
- Part III. Weimar Revisionism and Baltic Security 1923-33: 5. Randstaatenpolitik
- 6. The politics of arbitration: Locarno and the Baltic
- Conclusions
- 7. Trade, minorities and Ostpolitik
- Map
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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