Introduction; 1. The period of persuasion: British strategic foreign policy and Soviet Russia, 1919–33; 2. 1933–4: parallel interests?; 3. A clash of sensibilities: January to June 1935; 4. Complications and choices: July 1935–February 1936; 5. Soviet Russian assertiveness: February 1936–July 1937; 6. Chamberlain's interlude: May 1937–September 1938; 7. Chamberlain as Buridan's ass: October 1938–September 1939; Conclusion.
A major re-interpretation of international relations from Versailles to the outbreak of war in 1939.
Keith Neilson is Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada, Ontario. His previous publications include Britain and the Last Tsar. The Russian Factor in British Policy, 1894–1917 (1995) and, with Zara Steiner, Britain and the Origins of the First World War (2003).
'Neilson offers a synthesis that... certainly... seems destined to help shape a revived debate of this subject for at least a decade to come.' RUSI Journal
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