The Popular Front and Central Europe
The Dilemmas of French Impotence 1918–1940
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:22nd Aug '02
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A study of French policies in Central Europe from Versailles until the fall of France.
This illuminating study investigates the implications of French military, economic and diplomatic policies in Central Europe from Versailles until the fall of France, establishing the proper context for the policy options of Léon Blum's Popular Front.Between 1936 and 1938, the French alliance system in East Central Europe collapsed. The resulting dramatic expansion of German power led directly to the Second World War. This illuminating study investigates the implications of French military, economic and diplomatic policies in Central Europe from Versailles until the fall of France, establishing the proper context for the policy options of Léon Blum's Popular Front. It focuses on the clash between the French military and French radical politics in 1936–7 when Blum's government sought to rally to the defence of Czechoslovakia. The figure of Blum illustrates the insights and the dilemmas of a democratic Socialist caught up in the imbrication of foreign and domestic politics which increasingly characterised the 1930s.
ISBN: 9780521522427
Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 24mm
Weight: 592g
368 pages