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Book Soviet Foreign Policy and the German Reunification Question 1953 1955

Download or read book Soviet Foreign Policy and the German Reunification Question 1953 1955 written by Harry Macy and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book German Reunification

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  • Author : Frédéric Bozo
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-08-05
  • ISBN : 1317336054
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book German Reunification written by Frédéric Bozo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a multinational history of German reunification based on empirical work by leading scholars. The reunification of Germany in 1989-90 was one of the most unexpected and momentous events of the twentieth century. Embedded within the wider process of the end of the Cold War, it contributed decisively to the dramatic changes that followed: the end of the division of Europe, the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, the origins of NATO’s eastward expansion and, not least, the creation of the European Union. Based on the wealth of evidence that has become available from many countries involved, and relying on the most recent historiography, this collection takes into account the complex interaction of multinational processes that were instrumental in shaping German reunification in the pivotal years 1989-90. The volume brings together renowned international scholars whose recent works, based on their research in multiple languages and sources, have contributed significantly to the history of the end of the Cold War and of German reunification. The resulting volume represents an important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of a significant chapter in recent history. This book will be of much interest to students of German politics, Cold war history, international and multinational history and IR in general.

Book Reexamining Soviet Policy Towards Germany During the Beria Interregnum

Download or read book Reexamining Soviet Policy Towards Germany During the Beria Interregnum written by James Richter and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This article [examines] ... recent disclosures about Soviet decionmaking towards Germany in the period from Stalin's death in March 1953 until Beria's arrest in late June of that same year. Many historians and political scientists have wondered if there might have been a chance during this short period to reunify Germany more than thirty years before Gorbachev came to power"--Page 1.

Book Russia and Germany Reborn

Download or read book Russia and Germany Reborn written by Angela E. Stent and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between Russia and Germany has been pivotal in some of the most fateful events of the twentieth century: the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the emergence of a new Europe from the ashes of communism. This is the first book to examine the recent evolution of that tense and often violent relationship from both the Russian and German perspectives. Angela Stent combines interviews with key international figures--including Mikhail Gorbachev--with insights gleaned from newly declassified archives in East Germany and her own profound understanding of Russian-German relations. She presents a remarkable review of the events and trends of the past three decades: the onset of d tente, the unification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the rise of an uncertain new European order. Stent reveals the chaos and ambivalence behind the Soviet negotiating strategy that led--against Gorbachev's wishes--to that old Soviet nightmare, a united Germany in NATO. She shows how German strength and Russian weakness have governed the delicate dance of power between recently unified Germany and newly democratized Russia. Finally, she lays out several scenarios for the future of Russian-German relations--some optimistic and others darkened by the threat of a new authoritarianism. Russia and Germany Reborn is crucial reading for anyone interested in a relationship that changed the course of the twentieth century and that will have a powerful impact on the next.

Book The German Reunification Issue

Download or read book The German Reunification Issue written by Lynette Manning Tatsch and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of German reunification has endured over time, conflict, and the convulsions of global power. After thirty years, the Germans are still pondering over the rent in their nation's boundries and debating whether the present schism is immutable or will be reversed sometime in the future. However, the reunification issue is indeed significant beyond the scope of German cohesion-- it imports directly on international security and lies at the nexus of superpower relations. The present agitation in Poland may be the impetus for the revival of the reunification chant. This research provides an analysis of German reunification with an emphasis on the Soviet perspective. The issue is examined by reviewing the history of reunification negotiations from 1947 to present; exploring the advances gained by OSTPOLITIK/WESTPOLITIK; studying the sentiments of the East European countries on the reunification issue; discussing the inextricable linkage of the problem to the interdependence in economic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and the Soviet Union; and by presaging the prospects for the ultimate realization of reunification.

Book Germany Between East and West

Download or read book Germany Between East and West written by Frederick H. Hartmann and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gorbachev and the German Question

Download or read book Gorbachev and the German Question written by David H. Shumaker and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges views that Gorbachev caved in to the West on German reunification. Analyzes his new thinking and shows how internal and external factors interacted to develop Soviet policies that helped transform postwar Europe.

Book The Soviet Union and German Reunification

Download or read book The Soviet Union and German Reunification written by John Alt Crumplar and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Chapter will discuss the Soviet policy towards German reunification from the Teheran summit until Stalin's death. The second chapter will analyze Soviet policy towards the German Question after Stalin's death until the building of the Berlin Wall. In these two chapters, this thesis will attempt to answer the following questions: Did the Soviets ever seriously consider a neutral reunified Germany to preclude a strong West Germany aligned with the West? Were the Soviets willing to give up the Sovietized Eastern Zone to prevent First the Formation of the FRG and subsequently the rearmament and integration of the FRG into the Western alliance? If not, were the many Soviet proposals simply attempts to prevent or delay West German rearmament and alignment with the West? Did the Soviets actually want a reunified Communist Germany. The third will deal with the Future prospects of German reunification. The writer will attempt to predict future Soviet policy toward German reunification by look at the Soviet-East Germany relationship and recent Soviet actions and comments toward the inter-German relationship this chapter will also discuss several neutralist plans for the reunification vis-arvis the Soviets. Finally the author will offer a possible model for reunification the Soviets might consider. (Author).

Book The Soviet Union and the Question of the Unity of Germany and of the German Peace Treaty

Download or read book The Soviet Union and the Question of the Unity of Germany and of the German Peace Treaty written by RUSSIA Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Ministerstvo Inostrannykh Del and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Ostpolitik to Reunification

Download or read book From Ostpolitik to Reunification written by Avril Pittman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the signing of the Moscow Treaty in 1970, West German-Soviet relations came to the forefront of world politics. Two decades later, the historic opening of the Berlin Wall and German reunification once again focused world attention on the Federal Republic's relations with the USSR. This book explores the development of this relationship from the perspective of West Germany. Dr Avril Pittman outlines the main events after the Second World War and then focuses on four issues central to this relationship in the 1970s and early 1980s. She explores family reunification and emigration rights for ethnic Germans living in the Soviet Union; the central role of Berlin and the reasons why the city persisted as a serious bilateral problem; the triangular relations between West Germany, the Soviet Union and East Germany; and the significance of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan which led to a sharp deterioration in East-West relations.

Book Between Containment and Rollback

Download or read book Between Containment and Rollback written by Christian F. Ostermann and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of World War II, American policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping communism at bay. In Germany, formally divided since 1949,the United States prioritized the political, economic, and, eventually, military integration of the fledgling Federal Republic with the West. The extraordinary success story of forging this alliance has dominated our historical under-standing of the American-German relationship. Largely left out of the grand narrative of U.S.–German relations were most East Germans who found themselves caught under Soviet and then communist control by the post-1945 geo-political fallout of the war that Nazi Germany had launched. They were the ones who most dearly paid the price for the country's division. This book writes the East Germans—both leadership and general populace—back into that history as objects of American policy and as historical agents in their own right Based on recently declassified documents from American, Russian, and German archives, this book demonstrates that U.S. efforts from 1945 to 1953 went beyond building a prosperous democracy in western Germany and "containing" Soviet-Communist power to the east. Under the Truman and then the Eisenhower administrations, American policy also included efforts to undermine and "roll back" Soviet and German communist control in the eastern part of the country. This story sheds light on a dark-er side to the American Cold War in Germany: propaganda, covert operations, economic pressure, and psychological warfare. Christian F. Ostermann takes an international history approach, capturing Soviet and East German responses and actions, and drawing a rich and complex picture of the early East–West confrontation in the heart of Europe.

Book Germany s Russia Problem

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  • Author : John Lough
  • Publisher : Russian Strategy and Power
  • Release : 2022-10-04
  • ISBN : 9781526169235
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Germany s Russia Problem written by John Lough and published by Russian Strategy and Power. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe's most important link with the largest country on the continent. This book analyses how successive German governments from 1991 to 2014 have misread Russian intentions, until Angela Merkel sharply recalibrated German and EU policy towards Moscow.

Book Germany Unified and Europe Transformed

Download or read book Germany Unified and Europe Transformed written by Philip Zelikow and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an analysis of the moves and manoeuvres that brought an end to the Cold War division of Europe. Coverage includes discussion of the opening of the Berlin Wall and a study of the relationship between West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and reform Communist leader, Hans Modrow.

Book Imperial Overstretch  Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev

Download or read book Imperial Overstretch Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev written by Hannes Adomeit and published by Nomos Verlag. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Buch ist eine Analyse von Aufstieg und Fall des sowjetischen Herrschaftssystems in dem Gebiet, das zur Zeit des Kalten Krieges "Osteuropa" genannt wurde, und der Rolle, die das Deutschlandproblem dabei gespielt hat. Gestützt auf die Auswertung neuer Quellen aus den Partei- und Staatsarchiven ehemals kommunistischerer Länder rekonstruiert es die folgende Entwicklung: die Teilung Deutschlands und dabei die Rolle der Sowjetunion unter Stalin; das eiserne Festhalten seiner Nachfolger an der Teilung; ihr zunehmendes Bewusstsein der hohen Kosten, welche die Aufrechterhaltung des imperialen Systems in Ostmitteleuropa verursachte; der Fehlschlag ihrer Anstrengungen, die wachsende wirtschaftliche und finanzielle Abhängigkeit der DDR von der Bundesrepublik zu verhindern; und schließlich die Gründe dafür, warum Gorbatschow die Auflösung des sowjetischen Herrschaftsbereichs in Ostmitteleuropa hinnahm und sogar der Mitgliedschaft des wiedervereinigten Deutschlands in der Nato zustimmte."Angesichts der russischen Okkupation der Krim, der anhaltenden Krise in der Ostukraine und der dadurch ausgelösten Gegenreaktionen von NATO und EU scheint sich der Kalte Krieg in Europa zurückgemeldet zu haben. Geeigneter kann der Zeitpunkt für die überarbeitete Neuauflage des sich inzwischen zu einem Standardwerk entwickelten Buches von Hannes Adomeit nicht sein. Seine profunde Kenntnis und Auseinandersetzung mit sowjetischer und russischer Politik seit fünf Jahrzehnten und sein Zugang zu neuem russischen Archivmaterial qualifiziert ihn zu einem der besten und erfahrensten Experten auf internationaler Ebene. Wer die sowjetische Politik nach dem II. Weltkrieg bis zur Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands und ihre Implikationen für die letzten 25 Jahre verstehen will, kommt an Adomeits Buch und seiner analytischen Brillanz nicht vorbei". Prof. Dr. h.c. Horst Teltschik, September 2015 "Of all of the analyses of the fall of the Soviet Union and reunification of Germany, Hannes Adomeit's 1998 classic, "Imperial Overstretch", has stood the test of time. Its re-publication here by Nomos, with some modest updates by the author, will be welcomed by scholars, students, the policy community, and the informed public, as a trenchant interpretation of what happened to the 'Soviet bloc', but also as an introduction to the assertive imperial politics of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation." Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University, November 2015

Book The Russian Question

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wayne Allensworth
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780847690039
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book The Russian Question written by Wayne Allensworth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1. The nationalist imperative - 2. The historical background - 3. Solzhenitsyn an the russian question - 4. Christian nationalism and the black hundreds - 5. National bolshevism and the two parties - 6. Zhirinovsky and the last drive to the south - 7. Neo-nazism and the national revolution - 8. The nationalist intelligentsia, eurasia and the problem of technology - 9. Reform nationalism - 10. The global regime and the nationalist reaction.