Cooperation or Intervention

Kurt Riezler and the Failure of GermanOstpolitik, 1918

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4210004
AutoresKonrad H Jarausch (autor de correspondencia)
Año1972
Volumen31
Número2
Páginas381-398
Fecha de publicación1972-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSlavic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2494340
OpenAlexW2331753671
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas14

Confronted with the enigma of revolutionary Russia, Imperial Germany vacillated between a policy of official cooperation and one of counterrevolutionary intervention after the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. In search of the reasons for this ambivalence, Western scholars have explored the ironies of the "unholy alliance" between Kaiser and commissar. Somewhat embarrassed for owing their survival to German autocracy, Soviet writers have praised Lenin's cleverness in exploiting the contradictions within the imperialist camp. In West Germany, after decades of complacent anticommunism, Fritz Fischer in hisGriff nach der Weltmachthas charged that rapacious Wilhelmian war aims "found their logical fulfillment in Brest-Litovsk and its supplementary treaties

Alliance · Ambivalence · Autocracy · Democracy · Economic history · German · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Treaty · History · Law · Psychology