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Treaty of Rapallo, 1922
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The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement in the Italian town of Rapallo on April 16, 1922 between Germany (the Weimar Republic) and Bolshevist Russia under which each renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and World War I.
The two governments also agreed to normalise their diplomatic relations and to "co-operate in a spirit of mutual goodwill in meeting the economic needs of both countries".
The Treaty was signed during the Genoa Conference by Georgi Chicherin, foreign minister of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, and his German counterpart Walther Rathenau.
A supplementary agreement signed at Berlin on November 5 extended the treaty to cover Germany's relations with Russian controlled Soviet republics of Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Far Eastern Republic.
A secret annex signed on July 29 allowed Germany to train their military in Soviet territory, thus violating the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
The treaty ended the diplomatic isolation of both countries in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was intended to form as an anti-Versailles axis against the West, since both groups lost a considerable amount of territory and political power under the treaty. In the West, it was viewed with alarm as strengthening the international position of both governments. Many conservative and far-right elements with the Weimar Republic were also alarmed by the government's decision to negotiate and maintain good relations with a communist state.
Poland, the Baltic states and Finland were concerned by this strengthening of Russian positions. The attempt to counter this development by closer cooperation in the fields of defence and foreign politics failed however, mainly due to resistance in the parliaments.
Though reaffirmed on paper in the Treaty of Berlin, 1926, the understanding between the two powers waned with Germany's rapprochement with Britain and France in the middle years of the decade.
[edit] See also
* Soviet-German relations before 1941
[edit] External links
* The text of the agreement (Mount Holyoke College website)
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Categories: 1922 in law | Treaties of Germany | Treaties of Russia | Soviet-German relations
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