• Hardback with dust cover, 140 pages
• ISBN: 978-94-90258-23-8
• Language: English

About the book

In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles put an official end to World War I. Yet, Europe remained in turmoil, if only because of the situation in Russia, where the Bolsheviks had seized power and a civil war had broken out. The Western allies had excluded Russia from participation in the Versailles conference, but often had different views on how to deal with their former adversary, Germany, and their former ally, Russia.

Herman Unger guides the reader through the often complex scenarios related to the Peace Conference, and pays particular attention to the 1922 Treaty of Rapallo, which laid the foundation for close economic cooperation between Russia and the Weimar Republic.

Moreover, these two countries started working together on significant, but secret military projects.

Unger has managed to draw information from Russian sources to shed more light on this military collaboration and, more generally, describes important aspects of the political situation in Europe between the end of World War I and the early 1930s.