ABSTRACT
The upheavals of 1924-1925 in the Soviet command do not seem to have gone by without leaving some mark 011 the operation of the secret military-industrial compact with Germany. As M. V. Frunze's reforms gathered momentum, new Soviet military-industrial priorities were being worked out with a definite shift in emphasis on the development of an indigenous war-industry and military potential. The idea of turning the whole undertaking into an economic arrangement by gradual transformation of the more military aspects proved to be impractical, although such a scheme had recommended itself to Brockdorff-Rantzau early in 1924. Disengagement was prevented precisely by those far-reaching commitments entered into by the German military missions to the Soviet Union in 1923 — overt and deliberate withdrawal from which would have wreaked havoc in Soviet-German political relations. Soviet-German naval collaboration was comparatively slow in reaching a stage where it might be compared with the progress in purely military affairs.
