Spectre of War (eBook)

International Communism and the Origins of World War II

Jonathan Haslam (Autor)

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2021
504 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21911-0 (ISBN)

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A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation. Looking beyond traditional explanations based on diplomatic failures or military might, Jonathan Haslam explores the neglected thread connecting them all: the fear of Communism prevalent across continents during the interwar period. Marshalling an array of archival sources, including records from the Communist International, Haslam transforms our understanding of the deep-seated origins of World War II, its conflicts, and its legacy.Haslam offers a panoramic view of Europe and northeast Asia during the 1920s and 1930s, connecting fascism's emergence with the impact of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. World War I had economically destabilized many nations, and the threat of Communist revolt loomed large in the ensuing social unrest. As Moscow supported Communist efforts in France, Spain, China, and beyond, opponents such as the British feared for the stability of their global empire, and viewed fascism as the only force standing between them and the Communist overthrow of the existing order. The appeasement and political misreading of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy that followed held back the spectre of rebellion-only to usher in the later advent of war.Illuminating ideological differences in the decades before World War II, and the continuous role of pre- and postwar Communism, The Spectre of War provides unprecedented context for one of the most momentous calamities of the twentieth century.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.5.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Adolf Hitler • alarmism • American imperialism • Ammunition • anarcho-syndicalism • Anglo-Soviet relations • Anschluss • Anthony Trollope • Anti-Capitalism • Anti-Communism • anti-Communitsm • Anti-Fascism • Antonio Gramsci • Appeasement • arthur ransome • assassination • authoritarianism • Barbarossa • Berchtesgaden • Between Hitler and Stalin • bolsheviks • Bolshevism • Bourgeoisie • British Empire • Capitalism • Capitalist state • Catholic Center Party • Central Committee • Chamberlain • Chiang Kai-shek • class conflict • Comintern • Commissar • communism • Communist International • Communist Party of Germany • comrade • Conservative Party (UK) • containment • contingency plan • counter-attack • counter-revolutionary • Crime • czechoslovakia • Day of the Barricades • declaration of war • Deflation • Dictatorship • Diplomacy • Disarmament • Dynamism (metaphysics) • Eastern Europe • Economic Sanctions • economy • Édouard Daladier • Enigma Machine • Extraterritoriality • Extremism • fall of France • Fascism • foreign policy • Fortification • Franz von Papen • Front organization • Gauleiter • German Nationalism • Germanophile • German re-armament • Germans • Gestapo • Global History • Government of France • Great Depression • Great Power • Hitler • hostility • hypocrisy • Ideology • imperialism • Impracticability • International History • International Relations • Interwar Period • Invasion • isolationism • Italians • Japan • Joachim von Ribbentrop • joseph stalin • Kuomintang • League of Nations • Leninism • Leon Trotsky • liberal internationalism • litvinov • Locarno Treaties • Luftwaffe • Manchuria • Marxism • Maxim Litvinov • Mein Kampf • military aid • military occupation • Military threat • Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact • Mussolini • Mutual Assured Destruction • National interest • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • Nazism • Nazi-Soviet Pact • Neville Chamberlain • non-aggression pact • obstacle • October Revolution • on war • Operation Barbarossa • Opportunism • Otto von Bismarck • Pacifism • Panzer • Partisan (military) • Pierre Laval • Pogrom • Poland • politburo • Political Geography • Political Party • political spectrum • Political System • Politician • Politics • Politics of France • Popular Front • power politics • Prediction • Princeton University Press • proletarian revolution • Pseudonym • Radicals (UK) • Rapallo • Rapprochement • Rebellion • Red Army • Reformism • Reichswehr • Reign of Terror • Remilitarization of the Rhineland • Reprisal • Revolutionary Military Council • revolutionary movement • Revolutionary propaganda • revolutionary struggle • Revolutionary terror • Rudolf Hess • Russian Revolution • russians • Second International • Secretary of State for War • Secret Intelligence Service • Shaanxi • show trial • Skirmisher • Social Democracy • Social Democrats • Soviet Armed Forces • Soviet Union • Spanish Civil War • Stalin • Subversion • The Battle of Britain • The Lights that Failed • The Triumph of the Dark • Total War • Trade Union • Treaty • Treaty of Versailles • Tripartite Pact • Twentieth-Century History • Undeclared War • Unemployment • Unilateralism • unrest • war • war effort • warfare • War in the North • war of aggression • War of the Second Coalition • Weapon • Weimar • Weimar Republic • World revolution • World War I • World War II • Yugoslavia • Zara Steiner
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21911-7 / 0691219117
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21911-0 / 9780691219110