Stalin's Failed Alliance

The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936-1939

Michael Jabara Carley

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University of Toronto Press
22 July 2024

Second World War; International relations

In the spring of 1936, the Soviet effort to build an anti-Nazi alliance was failing. Stalin continued nevertheless to support diplomatic efforts to stop Nazi aggression in Europe. In Stalin's Failed Alliance, the sequel to Stalin's Gamble, Michael Jabara Carley continues his re-evaluation of European diplomacy during the critical events between May 1936 and August 1939.

This narrative history examines the great crises of the pre-war period

the Spanish Civil War, Anschluss, and Munich accords

as well as both the last Soviet efforts to organize an anti-Nazi alliance in the springsummer of 1939 and Moscow's shocking volte-face, the signing of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact.

Carley's history traces the lead-up to the outbreak of war in Europe on 1 September 1939 and sheds light on the Soviet Union's efforts to organize a defensive alliance against Nazi Germany, in effect rebuilding the anti-German Entente of the First World War. The author argues for the sincerity of Soviet overtures to the western European powers and that the non-aggression pact was a last-ditch response to the refusal of other states, especially Britain and France, to conclude an alliance with the USSR against Nazi Germany. Drawing on extensive archival research in Soviet and Western archival papers, Stalin's Failed Alliance aims to see the European crisis of the 1930s through Soviet eyes.

By: Michael Jabara Carley
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 920g
ISBN: 9781487553425
ISBN 10: 1487553420
Pages: 616
Publication Date: 22 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Biographical Notes 1. Preface 2. European Sidelights: Spring–Summer 1936 3. Catastrophe: Civil War in Spain 4. The Spectre of Rapallo 5. The Broken Hinge 6. Aftershocks 7. Romanian Intermezzo 8. The Munich Crisis: First Phase 9. The Munich Crisis: Second Phase 10. Despair and Hope 11. Last Chance 12. Epilogue: The Inevitable, Tragic End of Collective Security Selected Bibliography Index

Michael Jabara Carley is a professor of history at the Université de Montréal.

Reviews for Stalin's Failed Alliance: The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936-1939

""This is compelling research of the highest academic level. Michael Jabara Carley provides his readers with a meticulous study of a very complicated subject - international relations in the Second World War and in particular the role played by the USSR. For all students of Soviet policy, this book is a must read.""--Sergei Kudryashov, Head of the Department of War Studies, Institute for Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences ""Michael Jabara Carley provides unique insights into the failure of the international response to Hitler's aggressive policies of the late 1930s. His invaluable work is deeply rooted in the archives, especially those of the Russian government.""--Evan Mawdsley, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, University of Glasgow ""Carley provides a deeply researched, engagingly written, and persuasively argued analysis of the Soviet government's failed attempt to forge an alliance with the Western powers to deter or defeat Nazi aggression. Based on impressive multi-archival research, he explodes the Cold War myth that Stalin preferred a deal with Hitler to an alliance with the democracies.""--Teddy Uldricks, Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina, Asheville