Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 ‘It nearly overthrew the applecart’: Lloyd George and the treaty 7 of Rapallo 7
7. 2 ‘The most important event since the armistice’: the Foreign Office and Rapallo 19
8. 3 Rapallo’s first test: the Ruhr crisis 33
9. 4 The policy of conciliation: Rapallo and the first Labour government 45
10. 5 The battle for the German soul: Locarno and the treaty of Berlin 55
11. 6 Rapallo and the rupture of Anglo-Soviet relations 77
12. 7 Rapallo and the decline of the Locarno spirit 89
13. 8 An economic Rapallo? 102
14. 9 Rapallo and the disarmament conference 119
15. 10 The Rapallo relationship and Hitler’s rise to power 137
16. 11 The end of Rapallo: the German–Polish non-aggression treaty 155
17. Conclusion 170
18. Bibliography 181
19. Index 195