title: Moscow’s Position on the Remilitarization of the Rhineland
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metadata.value: Naumov, Aleksandr O.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T14:02:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T14:02:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Naumov А. O. Moscow’s Position on the Remilitarization of the Rhineland. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 4, рp. 1199–1211. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.410 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.410
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39012
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines the problem of the remilitarization of the Rhineland by Nazi Germany
  in March 1936 through the prism of the perception of this event in the Soviet military and
  political-diplomatic circles. Special attention is paid to the analysis of archival materials introduced
  into scholarly circulation for the first time, allowing a new look at the position of
  the USSR during the development of crisis trends in the Versailles system of international
  relations. The author comes to the conclusion that the Rhineland crisis played a crucial role
  in changing the balance of power in Europe, dramatically strengthening the position of Nazi
  Germany and weakening the position of France. Great Britain, after the remilitarization of
  the Rhineland, embarked on the path of appeasing the aggressors. In fact, this event was the
  starting point of the crisis of the interwar order, which eventually led to the outbreak of World
  War II. Surrendering one position after another and making concessions to Hitler’s Germany,
  Great Britain and France were unable to achieve their main goal — to prevent a new world
  war, only strengthening the confidence of European dictators in the expediency of achieving
  their goals by force. In these difficult conditions, as archival documents show, there was a clear
  understanding in Moscow how dangerous the development of destructive events in European
  politics was. When forming its own foreign policy line, the Kremlin objectively assessed both
  the true intentions of the Hitler regime and the essence of the foreign policy maneuvers of
  Western democracies.
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metadata.value: This research has been supported by the Interdisciplinary Scientific and Educational School of Moscow
  University “Preservation of the World Cultural and Historical Heritage”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: remilitarization of the Rhineland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Treaty of Versailles
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Locarno Agreements
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet foreign policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Franco-Soviet Pact
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: policy of appeasement
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nazism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: League of Nations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: World War II
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Moscow’s Position on the Remilitarization of the Rhineland
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metadata.value: Article
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