Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9780511497353
0511497350
0511147015
9780511147012
0511146671
9780511146671
9780511146435
0511146434
0511145993
9780511145995
0521857139
9780521857130
9780521109789
1107155908
9781107155909
1280347058
9781280347054
0511312040
9780511312045
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-373) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "This book is a reinterpretation of international relations in the period from 1919 to 1939. Avoiding simplistic explanations such as appeasement and British decline, Keith Neilson demonstrates that the underlying cause of the Second World War was the intellectual failure to find an effective means of maintaining the new world order created in 1919. With secret diplomacy, alliances and the balance of power seen as having caused the First World War, the makers of British policy after 1919 were forced to rely on instruments of liberal internationalism such as arms control, the League of Nations and global public opinion to preserve peace. Using Britain's relations with Soviet Russia as a focus for a re-examination of Britain's dealings with Germany and Japan, this book shows that these tools were inadequate to deal with the physical and ideological threats posed by Bolshevism, fascism, Naziism and Japanese militarism."--Publisher's description.
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| Other form: | Print version: Neilson, Keith. Britain, Soviet Russia and the collapse of the Versailles order, 1919-1939. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 2006 9780521857130
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