Confirming the Contacts, Building a Framework

Abstract

The year 1920 saw the two countries move closer towards an arrangement, and the increasing number of exchanges between the Soviet government and the German army. It was the year in which Seeckt became more convinced of the validity of his Ostpolitik, and in which the Soviet administration was coming to realize that it would likely have to abandon the Comintern impulse for exporting revolution to Germany, if it wished to be able to accrue the greater benefits of military-economic arrangements. The following year, in the run-up to the Treaty of Rapallo, saw these opinions confirmed and solidified by the international events occurring around the two countries.