The Baltic States and Weimar Ostpolitik

by John Hiden

Book Overview

The historical and geographical significance of the Baltic Sea as a Russian gateway to the West has sometimes overshadowed its reciprocal significance as a German window on the East, but in the period after the First World War the Baltic was to become of critical importance to a German state then shorn of much international authority. This study shows in detail how the Weimar Republic sought to develop its economic influence in the newly independent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521893259
• ISBN13: 9780521893251
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"