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The Faustian Pact: Soviet-German Military Cooperation in the Interwar Period

Johnson, Ian Ona
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1753-8953
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461255006

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, History.
This dissertation analyzes secret military cooperation between the Soviet Union and Germany from 1920 until 1933. Both states found themselves internationally isolated after World War I. Unable to meet their own security needs – despite immense ideological differences – they turned to each other in an unlikely partnership. Together, they established a network of secret military bases, testing grounds and laboratories inside Russia, where they jointly developed new aircraft, armored vehicles, and chemical weapons. Their work together provided a dark glimpse of the future: Soviet military intelligence reports chronicled the rise of pro-Nazi sentiment among the German officers. German intelligence in turn described the growing cult of Stalin and the scenes of mass starvation unfolding right outside the gates of their facilities in the wake of collectivization. And both sides practiced human experimentation in their joint chemical weapons facilities. But cooperation between the two states was more than just a harbinger of what was to come: the new ideas, technologies, and factories developed in this period of cooperation would serve a vital role in the course and conduct of the coming war. At its core, the interwar exchange of Russian space for German technology was a wager upon which the Second World War depended.
Jennifer Siegel (Advisor)
Peter Mansoor (Committee Member)
David Hoffmann (Committee Member)
Alan Beyerchen (Committee Member)
546 p.
History; Technology
Weimar Republic; Reichswehr; Seeckt, Germany; Wehrmacht, Hitler, Soviet Union; USSR; Stalin; Red Army; Tukhachevsky; Technology; Interwar; Aviation; Tank; Chemical Weapons; Krupp; 1919; Treaty of Versailles; 1933; Treaty of Rapallo

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  • Johnson, I. O. (2016). The Faustian Pact: Soviet-German Military Cooperation in the Interwar Period [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461255006

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Johnson, Ian. The Faustian Pact: Soviet-German Military Cooperation in the Interwar Period. 2016. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461255006.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Johnson, Ian. "The Faustian Pact: Soviet-German Military Cooperation in the Interwar Period." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461255006

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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