ABSTRACT

Private papers, diaries and government and Foreign Office records are used within this book to produce an analysis of the attitudes of the British political elite towards the Soviet Union, assessing the influence such attitudes had upon British foreign policy between May 1937 and August 1939.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter |26 pages

The Cabinet and Communism

chapter |20 pages

Building Bridges

chapter |26 pages

The Anti-appeasers

chapter |16 pages

Poland or the Soviet Union?

chapter |32 pages

The Loss of an Ally

chapter |16 pages

United in Opposition

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion