German Hegemony and the Socialist International’s Place in Interwar European Diplomacy

Although communism’s role in European international affairs between the wars has garnered substantial attention, to this day we know very little about the much more important impact on the European state system exerted by communism’s internecine rival, socialism. By employing a multinational archiva...

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Published inEuropean history quarterly Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 101 - 140
Main Author Blackwood, William Lee
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi SAGE Publications 01.01.2001
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Diplomacy
Europe
Foreign relations
Germany
Hegemony
International relations
Interwar years
Nazi era
Political cleavages
Political parties
Politics
Social democracy
Socialism
Weimar Germany
Germany-pre-1945
international relations
appeasement
socialist internationalism
socialism
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutsch-lands
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Summary:Although communism’s role in European international affairs between the wars has garnered substantial attention, to this day we know very little about the much more important impact on the European state system exerted by communism’s internecine rival, socialism. By employing a multinational archival approach that draws on hitherto unused Austrian, Belgian, British, Czechoslovak, French, German, Polish and Russian materials, this article focuses on socialism’s critical contribution to Weimar German diplomacy and suggests that the international politics of the democratic left set the stage for the great powers’ later appeasement of Hitler’s Germany.
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ISSN:0265-6914
1461-7110
DOI:10.1177/026569140103100104