TY  - GEN
T1  - The spectre of war : international communism and the origins of World War II
T2  - Princeton studies in international history and politics.
A1  - Haslam, Jonathan
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1245670754
AB  - "This book is a global history of the Interwar period, which posits a new history for the origins of the Second World War. Jonathan Haslam argues that it was not only the failures of the treaties that ended the First World War that led to the Second, as has traditionally been supposed. Rather, fear of international communism hampered the Great Powers and prevented the necessary diplomatic steps to contain the aggression of Germany and Japan to a much greater extent and much earlier in history than previous scholarship has recognized. Haslam looks at newly discovered and neglected archival materials around the world to show how communism as a social and political force shaped the politics in countries as diverse as Britain, Spain, France, as well as the U.S., China, and European colonies in the 1920s and 1930s. Both Communism and fear of communism were essential components of the period's political and class divides within Europe, the Weimar crisis, the Great Depression, and colonial conflicts around the world. These social factors formed the essential background to the grand political dramas in each country, explaining for example why France seemed timid, Britain appeased, and the U.S. self-isolated. Haslam expertly brings together domestic and international politics as well as the European and Asian theaters to shed new light on this pivotal period of history in new ways. Ultimately, he shows that international communism was much a more significant factor in the diplomatic failures that permitted Japan's increased aggression and Hitler's rise to power than was previously thought"--
OP  - 481
CN  - HX238
SN  - 9780691219110
SN  - 0691219117
SN  - 9780691182650
KW  - Communism : Europe : History : 20th century.
KW  - Social stratification : Europe : History : 20th century.
KW  - Propaganda, Communist : Europe : History : 20th century.
KW  - Europe : Politics and government : 20th century.
KW  - Europe : Foreign relations : 20th century.
KW  - Europe : History : 20th century.
KW  - Stratification sociale : Europe : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Propagande communiste : Europe : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Europe : Politique et gouvernement : 20e siècle.
KW  - Europe : Relations extérieures : 20e siècle.
KW  - Europe : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - HISTORY : Modern : 20th Century.
KW  - Communism
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Propaganda, Communist
KW  - Social stratification
KW  - Europe
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Anglo-Soviet relations.
KW  - Barbarossa.
KW  - Bolshevism.
KW  - Catholic Center Party.
KW  - Chamberlain.
KW  - Comintern.
KW  - Fascism.
KW  - Great Depression.
KW  - Hitler.
KW  - Japan.
KW  - Manchuria.
KW  - Mussolini.
KW  - Nazi-Soviet Pact.
KW  - Nazi-Soviet pact.
KW  - Nazism.
KW  - Poland.
KW  - Popular Front.
KW  - Russian revolution.
KW  - Social Democrats.
KW  - Spanish Civil War.
KW  - Stalin.
KW  - The Lights that Failed.
KW  - The Triumph of the Dark.
KW  - Weimar.
KW  - Zara Steiner.
KW  - anti-Communitsm.
KW  - fall of France.
KW  - global history.
KW  - international history.
KW  - twentieth-century history.
KW  - History
ER  -