Title: The Anglo-Soviet Alliance and the Problem of Germany, 1941-1945
Abstract: response to the Fascist challenge. Strangely enough, however, it has never been asked whether similar symptoms can be detected in British relations with the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Among the historiographical assumptions to account for this two are of particular importance. Firstly, the Anglo-Soviet alliance of May 1942 was advocated by former anti-appeasers like Churchill and Eden who would not admit that their approach to Stalin was not altogether different from Chamberlain's dealings with Hitler. Secondly, attention has been focused on the United States as the new 'superpower', as though responsibility for co-operation with Moscow during the war as well as for the ensuing Cold War must be laid at the feet of the new leading nation of the West and nowhere else. If it can be proved that the same motives and methods were at work in British relations with both Hitler and Stalin, the concept of appeasement would appear to be meaningless or else to require redefinition. In his study on 'Russia's Road to the Cold War', perhaps the most thorough refutation of American revisionist historiography, Mastny comes to the conclusion that British diplomacy during the Second World War 'makes the
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
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