Table of Contents

Chapter One I) The Road to Moscow: ‘Jewish-Bolshevism’ and the Impact of Nazi Ideology on the Development of Foreign Policy II) ‘Spreading the Word’: Hitler, the Great Powers and the International Bolshevik Conspiracy, 1931-33 Chapter Two I) The Reorientation of German Ostpolitik: Russia, Poland and the Eastern Pact, 1933-35 II) An Anglo-German Vanguard against Bolshevism? Hitler’s Quest for British Co-operation against Russia, 1933-35 Chapter Three I) Anti-Bolshevism and the Mobilization of Allies, 1933-36 II) The Mobilization of Propaganda, 1934-36 Chapter Four I) The Failure of Hitler’s Anti-Bolshevik Appeal, 1936 II) Politics and Propaganda in the ‘Year of Awareness’, 1937 Chapter Five I) Hitler, the Hossbach Conference and the Crises of 1938-39 II) The Ebb and Flow of Anti-Bolshevism, 1939-40 Chapter Six I) The Primacy of Ideology: Hitler, Operation Barbarossa and the Eradication of Bolshevism, 1940-43 II) Goebbels, the Antikomintern and the Propaganda Onslaught against Bolshevism, 1941-43 III) Occupation and Co-operation: Russians and Europeans against Bolshevism, 1941-43 Overview and Epilogue Bibliography

Promotional Information

In the early hours of 22 June 1941 units of the Wehrmacht began to pour into the Soviet Union. They were embarking on an undertaking long planned by Adolf Hitler. This book provides the analysis of Hitler's attitude towards Bolshevism, the destruction of which he was still describing in early 1945 as the raison d'etre of the Nazi movement.

About the Author

Lorna Waddington is Lecturer in International History at the University of Leeds.

Reviews

""A noteworthy book that makes a vital contribution to understanding the foreign policy of the Third Reich... Highly recommended."" --CHOICE