Название: Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930s
Автор: Igor Lukes
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195102665
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 318
Размер: 24,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
The Munich crisis of 1938, in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland, has provoked a vast amount of historical writing. But historians have had, until now, only a vague understanding of the roles played by the Soviet Union and by Czechoslovakia, the country whose very existence was at the center of the crisis. In Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler, Igor Lukes explores this turbulent and tragic era from the new perspective of the Prague government itself. At the center of this study is Edvard Benes, a Czechoslovak foreign policy strategist and a major player in the political machinations of the era. The work analyzes the Prague Government's attempts to secure the existence of the Republic of Czechoslovakia in the treacherous space between the millstones of the East and West.