The Road to Barbarossa : Soviet-German Relations, 1917-1941

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eBay Store Design by Visualsoft\n\nThe Road to Barbarossa - Soviet-German Relations 1917-41 BOOK\n\n--\nFrom \u00A320.00\n\n--RRP \u00A325.00\n--|\n--You Save \u00A35.00\n\nFrom the chaos of the First World War, during which Germany and Russia had fought each other to a standstill, there emerged two societies whose diametrically opposed ideologies of communism and fascism represented the opposite extremes of the political spectrum. Despite this, in time the governments and military establishments in both countries were able to create an environment where political expediency led to both cooperation and an eventual alliance. Western democracies found both systems repellent but the two countries, Germany and the Soviet Union, embodied vast resources of, in the case of the Soviets, raw materials and, in the case of Germany, huge intellectual, scientific and industrial expertise. Both offered massive opportunities for trade, but neither made comfortable partners. Britain, whose sympathit