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Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain

Author : Mark Kramer
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739181866
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain written by Mark Kramer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in 1989. Notions of a “global Cold War” are useful in describing the wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II, but first and foremost the Cold War was about the standoff in Europe. The Soviet Union established a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe in the mid-1940s that later became institutionalized in the Warsaw Pact, an organization that was offset by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) led by the United States. The fundamental division of Europe persisted for forty years, coming to an end only when Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe dissolved. Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1989, edited by Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana, consists of cutting-edge essays by distinguished experts who discuss the Cold War in Europe from beginning to end, with a particular focus on the countries that were behind the iron curtain. The contributors take account of structural conditions that helped generate the Cold War schism in Europe, but they also ascribe agency to local actors as well as to the superpowers. The chapters dealing with the end of the Cold War in Europe explain not only why it ended but also why the events leading to that outcome occurred almost entirely peacefully.

Decline of the Soviet Empire and Germany's reunification

Author : Hanns Jürgen Küsters
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar
ISBN 13 : 3412504009
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Decline of the Soviet Empire and Germany's reunification written by Hanns Jürgen Küsters and published by Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Wilke: Manfred Wilke, geboren 1941 in Kassel, Dr. rer. pol.

Unified Military Industries of the Soviet Bloc

Author : Pál Germuska
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149850907X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Unified Military Industries of the Soviet Bloc by : Pál Germuska

Download or read book Unified Military Industries of the Soviet Bloc written by Pál Germuska and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Socialist economic and military cooperation by presenting a complete branch, the military industry, from the perspective of a smaller member nation, Hungary. It demonstrates that military industry cooperation played a prominent role in the development of economic cooperation within the Soviet Bloc, and it was in this sector that the strongest, most efficient integration was established.

Defining ‘Eastern Europe’

Author : Piotr Twardzisz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319773747
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Defining ‘Eastern Europe’ written by Piotr Twardzisz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression ‘Eastern Europe’ in international English-language media discourse and academic discourse. Interdisciplinary in nature, it provides insights beyond semantics and lexicology, commenting on the politics, history, economy and culture of the region. Its thorough analysis of ‘Eastern Europe’ as a linguistic entity, surrounded and affected by other linguistic entities, allows for a systematic description of the term’s linguistic ‘behaviour’ in specialist written discourse. The author measures the ‘quantity’ and ‘quality’ of ‘Eastern Europe’ in specialist discourse, painting a holistic picture of how it appears in English-language quality texts published in the last twenty-five years. This book will appeal to students and scholars of cognitive linguistics, semantics, lexicology and lexicography, and to specialists working on history, political theory and international relations as they relate to Eastern Europe.

The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe

Author : Mark Kramer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179363193X
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe written by Mark Kramer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive archival research, the contributions in this collection examine the nuances of neutrality leading up to and during the Cold War. The contributors demonstrate the importance of the Soviet Union to the neutral states of Europe during the Cold War and vice versa.

Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War

Author : Patryk Babiracki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319325701
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War written by Patryk Babiracki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines how numerous international transfers, circulations, and exchanges shaped the world of socialism during the Cold War. Over the course of half a century, the Soviets shaped politics, values and material culture throughout the vast space of Eurasia, and foreign forces in turn often influenced Soviet policies and society. The result was the distinct and interconnected world of socialism, or the Socialist Second World. Drawing on previously unavailable archival sources and cutting-edge insights from “New Cold War” and transnational histories, the twelve contributors to this volume focus on diverse cultural and social forms of this global socialist exchange: the cults of communist leaders, literature, cinema, television, music, architecture, youth festivals, and cultural diplomacy. The book’s contributors seek to understand the forces that enabled and impeded the cultural consolidation of the Socialist Second World. The efforts of those who created this world, and the limitations on what they could do, remain key to understanding both the outcomes of the Cold War and a recent legacy that continues to shape lives, cultures and policies in post-communist states today.

Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism

Author : Michael Gehler
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462702160
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Book Synopsis Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism by : Michael Gehler

Download or read book Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism written by Michael Gehler and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection the contributing authors aim to reconstruct Christian Democracy’s role in the fall of Communism from a bird's-eye perspective by covering the entire region and by taking “third-way” options in the broader political imaginary of late-Cold War Europe into account. The book’s twelve chapters present the most recent insights on this topic and connect scholarship on the Iron Curtain’s collapse with scholarship on political Catholicism. Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism offers the reader a two-fold perspective. The first approach examines the efforts undertaken by Western European actors who wanted to foster or support Christian Democratic initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. The second approach is devoted to the (re-)emergence of homegrown Christian Democratic formations in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the volume’s seminal contributions lies in its documentation of the decisive role that Christian Democracy played in supporting the political and anti-political forces that engineered the collapse of Communism from within between 1989 and 1991.

Great Powers and International Hierarchy

Author : Daniel McCormack
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319939769
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Great Powers and International Hierarchy written by Daniel McCormack and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hierarchical relationships—rules that structure both international and domestic politics—are pervasive. Yet we know little about how these relationships are constructed, maintained, and dismantled. This book fills this lacuna through a two-pronged research approach: first, it discusses how great power negotiations over international political settlements both respond to domestic politics within weak states and structure the specific forms that hierarchy takes. Second, it deduces three sets of hypotheses about hierarchy maintenance, construction, and collapse during the post-war era. By offering a coherent theoretical model of hierarchical politics within weaker states, the author is able to answer a number of important questions, including: Why does the United States often ally with autocratic states even though its most enduring relationships are with democracies? Why do autocratic hierarchical relationships require interstate coercion? Why do some hierarchies end violently and others peacefully? Why does hierarchical competition sometimes lead to interstate conflict and sometimes to civil conflict?

Soviet Americana

Author : Sergei Zhuk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178673303X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Americana written by Sergei Zhuk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. To shed light onto this important, yet under-studied, academic community, Sergei Zhuk here explores the personal histories of prominent Soviet Americanists, considering the myriad cultural influences - from John Wayne's bravado in the film Stagecoach to Miles Davis - that shaped their identities, careers and academic interests. Zhuk's compelling account draws on a wide range of understudied archival documents, periodicals, letters and diaries as well as more than 100 exclusive interviews with prominent Americanists to take the reader from the post-war origins of American studies, via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw and perestroika, to Putin's Russia. Soviet Americana is a comprehensive insight into shifting attitudes towards the US throughout the twentieth century and an essential resource for all Soviet and Cold War historians.

Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR

Author : Sergei I. Zhuk
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498551254
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR written by Sergei I. Zhuk and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930–2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Russia–US relations, also examines broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.

The Long Détente

Author : Oliver Bange
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 963386223X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book The Long Détente written by Oliver Bange and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents pieces of evidence, which – taken together – lead to an argument that goes against the grain of the established Cold War narrative. The argument is that a “long détente” existed between East and West from the 1950s to the 1980s, that it existed and lasted for good (economic, national security, societal) reasons, and that it had a profound impact on the outcome of the conflict between East and West and the quintessentially peaceful framework in which this “endgame” was played. New, Euro-centered narratives are offered, including both West and East European perspectives. These contributions point to critical inconsistencies and inherent problems in the traditional U.S. dominated narrative of the “Victory in the Cold War.” The argument of a “long détente” does not need to replace the ruling American narrative. Rather, it can and needs to be augmented with European experiences and perceptions. After all, it was Europe – its peoples, societies, and states – that stood both at the ideological and military frontline of the conflict between East and West, and it was here that the struggle between liberalism and communism was eventually decided.

Dealing with Dictators

Author : László Borhi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253019478
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Dealing with Dictators written by László Borhi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests. During this period, US policies were a mix of economic and psychological warfare, subversion, cultural and economic penetration, and coercive diplomacy. Through careful examination of American and Hungarian sources, László Borhi assesses why some policies toward Hungary achieved their goals while others were not successful. When George H. W. Bush exclaimed to Mikhail Gorbachev on the day the Soviet Union collapsed, "Together we liberated Eastern Europe and unified Germany," he was hardly doing justice to the complicated history of the era. The story of the process by which the transition from Soviet satellite to independent state occurred in Hungary sheds light on the dynamics of systemic change in international politics at the end of the Cold War.

Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe

Author : Laurien Crump
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429758464
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe written by Laurien Crump and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers – East–West, neutral and non-aligned – and argues that their position vis-à-vis the superpowers often provided them with an opportunity rather than merely representing a constraint. Analysing the margins for manoeuvre of these smaller powers, the volume covers a wide array of themes, ranging from cultural to economic issues, energy to diplomacy and Bulgaria to Belgium. Given its holistic and nuanced intervention in studies of the Cold War, this book will be instrumental for students of history, international relations and political science.

To Build a Better World

Author : Philip Zelikow
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1538764660
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book To Build a Better World written by Philip Zelikow and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply researched international history and "exemplary study" (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great time of choosing. Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several languages, interviewed leading figures, and drawn on their own firsthand experience to bring to life the choices that molded the contemporary world. Zeroing in on the key moments of decision, the might-have-beens, and the human beings working through them, they explore both what happened and what could have happened, to show how one world ended and another took form. Beginning in the late 1970s and carrying into the present, they focus on the momentous period between 1988 and 1992, when an entire world system changed, states broke apart, and societies were transformed. Such periods have always been accompanied by terrible wars -- but not this time. This is also a story of individuals coping with uncertainty. They voice their hopes and fears. They try out desperate improvisations and careful designs. These were leaders who grew up in a "postwar" world, who tried to fashion something better, more peaceful, more prosperous, than the damaged, divided world in which they had come of age. New problems are putting their choices, and the world they made, back on the operating table. It is time to recall not only why they made their choices, but also just how great nations can step up to great challenges. Timed for the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, To Build a Better World is an authoritative depiction of contemporary statecraft. It lets readers in on the strategies and negotiations, nerve-racking risks, last-minute decisions, and deep deliberations behind the dramas that changed the face of Europe -- and the world -- forever.

The Balkans in the Cold War

Author : Svetozar Rajak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137439033
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Balkans in the Cold War written by Svetozar Rajak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positioned on the fault line between two competing Cold War ideological and military alliances, and entangled in ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, the Balkan region offers a particularly interesting case for the study of the global Cold War system. This book explores the origins, unfolding and impact of the Cold War on the Balkans on the one hand, and the importance of regional realities and pressures on the other. Fifteen contributors from history, international relations, and political science address a series of complex issues rarely covered in one volume, namely the Balkans and the creation of the Cold War order; Military alliances and the Balkans; uneasy relations with the Superpowers; Balkan dilemmas in the 1970s and 1980s and the ‘significant other’ – the EEC; and identity, culture and ideology. The book’s particular contribution to the scholarship of the Cold War is that it draws on extensive multi-archival research of both regional and American, ex-Soviet and Western European archives.

The Big Three Allies and the European Resistance

Author : Associate Professor of Contemporary History Tommaso Piffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198826346
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Big Three Allies and the European Resistance written by Associate Professor of Contemporary History Tommaso Piffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comparative and pan-European study of the Big Three's involvement in Resistance movements across wartime Europe. From Yugoslavia to Poland and from Greece to France and Italy, the book vividly depicts and sharply analyses how this proxy war shaped the history of the post-war settlement.

The Collapse

Author : Mary Elise Sarotte
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0465056903
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Collapse written by Mary Elise Sarotte and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall -- infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe -- seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was not planned by the East German ruling regime -- nor was it the result of a bargain between either Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It was an accident. In The Collapse, prize-winning historian Mary Elise Sarotte reveals how a perfect storm of decisions made by daring underground revolutionaries, disgruntled Stasi officers, and dictatorial party bosses sparked an unexpected series of events culminating in the chaotic fall of the Wall. With a novelist's eye for character and detail, she brings to vivid life a story that sweeps across Budapest, Prague, Dresden, and Leipzig and up to the armed checkpoints in Berlin. We meet the revolutionaries Roland Jahn, Aram Radomski, and Siggi Schefke, risking it all to smuggle the truth across the Iron Curtain; the hapless Politburo member GüSchabowski, mistakenly suggesting that the Wall is open to a press conference full of foreign journalists, including NBC's Tom Brokaw; and Stasi officer Harald Jär, holding the fort at the crucial border crossing that night. Soon, Brokaw starts broadcasting live from Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, where the crowds are exulting in the euphoria of newfound freedom -- and the dictators are plotting to restore control. Drawing on new archival sources and dozens of interviews, The Collapse offers the definitive account of the night that brought down the Berlin Wall.