Looking at the history of Soviet-German relations from Rapallo on and the prehistory of the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact, the author argues that the USSR strove to find the most convenient moment for entering into European war in order to achieve dominance in Europe.
Keywords
Soviet-German non-aggression pact, the system of collective security, the tripartite negotiations between Britain, France and the Soviet Union, military co-operation of the USSR and Germany, Soviet-German talks, the Poland problem, the underlying cause o
