My task is to get into the French army’

Soviet strategy and the origins of Soviet-French military cooperation in the 1930s

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ID11158100
AutoresAleksandr Vershinin (0000-0001-5206-8013, Lomonosov Moscow State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume44
Fascículo5
Páginas685-714
Data de publicação2021-07-29
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Strategic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0140-2390 • E-ISSN: 1743-937X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01402390.2020.1737930
OpenAlexW3018363392
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas12

This article is about the first attempts of Soviet-French rapprochement in the military sphere in the early 1930s. It is based largely upon unpublished documents from the Soviet foreign policy (AVPRF), military (RGVA) and the communist party (RGASPI) archives in Moscow. It contends that for the top leadership of the USSR the political rapprochement with France did not necessarily lead to making a fully-fledged military alliance. Despite the attitude of Soviet diplomats in Paris, Moscow remained distrustful of the French. It considered military cooperation with them as a way to reinforce the Red Army and strengthen international positions of the USSR without taking excessive obligations

Alliance · Communism · Economic history · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law

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