This edition opens up access to documents from a whole series of German and Russian archives dealing with German-Soviet relations in all their facets: politics, diplomacy, economics, the military, scholarship, and culture. The two-state, multi-archival perspective allows for the analysis of new topics, the questioning of old interpretations, and an understanding of the interplay of bilateral relations in the 1930s.

Carola Tischler, Inst.f.Zeitgeschichte München - Berlin, Sergej Slutsch, Akademie der Wissenschaften Russlands, Moskau.