Trade with the Aggressor and the Pact Ribbentrop–Molotov. Observations Insipred by Unknown Documents

• Authors: Popov Gregory

Title variants

EN

Handel z najeźdźcą a Pakt Ribbentrop–Mołotow. Spostrzeżenia zainspirowane przez nieznane dokumenty

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Artykuł ten poświęcony jest problemowi gospodarczych skutków paktu Ribbentrop–Mołotow. Dyskusja na temat paktu trwa od wielu lat, jakkolwiek nie wykazano w badaniach wpływu paktu na sukcesy militarne nazistowskich Niemiec w latach 1939–1941, czyli okresie największych sukcesów nazistowskiej machiny wojennej. Autor, bazując na nowo odnalezionych dokumentach ujawniających stosunki gospodarcze pomiędzy Niemcami a kilkoma państwami, włączając ZSRR, prezentuje studium porównawcze handlu pomiędzy Niemcami a demokracjami zachodnimi z jednej strony, a Niemcami i ZSRR – z drugiej, w celu podkreślenia roli paktu Ribbentrop–Mołotow w rozwoju machiny wojennej nazistowskich Niemiec.

PL

This article is devoted to the problem of economic consequences of the pact Ribbentrop–Molotov. The discussion about the pact is going on for many years, however it is marred by scarcity of research examining the impact of the pact on the war efforts of the Nazi Germany in 1939–1941, the years of the utmost success of the Nazi war machine. The present paper relies on newly discovered documents revealing the economic relations between Germany and several states, including USSR. It constitutes a comparative study of the trade between Germany and Western democracies on the one hand, and between Germany and USSR on another, in order to better comprehend the role of the pact Ribbentrop–Molotov in the growth of the Nazi Germany’s war machine.

Keywords

EN

the pact Ribbentrop–Molotov; the Nazi Germany’s economy; raw materials export in 1930s; USSR external policy; geopolitics during the Second World War

PL

pakt Ribbentrop–Mołotow; gospodarka nazistowskich Niemiec; eksport surowców w latach trzydziestych XX wieku; polityka zagraniczna ZSRR;; geopolityka w czasach II wojny światowej

• Publisher: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
• Journal: Studia Prawno-Ekonomiczne
• Year: 2016
• Volume: XCVIII
• Pages: 89-103

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Popov Gregory

• Ph.D. in economics, an assistant professor at the Moscow Technological Institute, Department Economics

References

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Identifiers

ISSN

0084-6841