Genoa, Rapallo, and European Reconstruction in 1922

by Carole Fink, Axel Frohn, Jürgen Heideking

Overview

One of the largest twentieth century summit meetings, the Genoa Conference of 1922, was also a notable failure, due to the gulf between the Allies and Germany, between the West and Soviet Russia, and among the World War I victors and their small allies. This book, a unique international collaboration, presents various perspectives on the Genoa Conference: its leadership, goals, and outcome. The authors present new findings on such questions as the sensational Rapallo Treaty between Germany and Russia; the strategy of the small neutral powers; and the policy of the United States toward European debts. Readers will find contrasting as well as complementary views in this volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521411677
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/29/1991
Series:	Publications of the German Historical Institute
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.33(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

Illustrations list; Maps list; Abbreviations list; Introduction; 1. Beyond revisionism: the Genoa conference of 1992 Carole Fink; 2. The Genoa conference of 1922: Lloyd George and the politics of recognition Andrew Williams; 3. A rainy day, April 16, 1922: the Rapallo treaty and the cloudy perspective for German foreign policy Peter Krüger; 4. Reparations in 1922 Sally Marks; 5. Germany and the United States: the concept of world economic interdependence Manfred Berg; 6. American policy toward debts and reconstruction at Genoa, 1922 Stephen A. Schuker; 7. French plans for the reconstruction of Russia: a history and evaluation Anne Hogenhuis-Seliverstoff; 8. The oil problem and Soviet-American relations at the Genoa conference of 1922 A. A. Fursenko; 9. Italy at the Genoa conference: Italian-Soviet commercial relations Giorgio Petracchi; 10. The European policy of Czechoslovakia on the Eve of the Genoa conference of 1922 Frank Hadler; 11. The Genoa conference and the little entente Magda Ádám; 12. The role of Switzerland and the Neutral States at the Genoa conference Antoine Fleury; 13. The Genoa conference and Japan: a lesson in Great-Power diplomacy Takako Ueta; Maps; Appendix; Selected bibliography; Contributors; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...this is well researched and, in view of today's Russian problems, also a timely publication, a tribute to a historiography, which, in the editor's words, stresses human decision making as a crucial factor in our past." German Studies Review

"...the articles offer interesting insights into details of how often-neglected states responded to the problems of the early 1920s." The Journal of American History

"...all specialists on interwar history will be grateful (once again) to Carole Fink and her colleagues." Stephen White, Slavic Review

"Overall, they reflect the praiseworthy trend of the latest scholarship in this area which has concentrated on the interplay of business and politics. The oil question, for example, is given a high profile....this volume is an unexpectedly rich research guide to international affairs in the early 1920s." Alan Cassels, The International History Review

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