
Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev
An Analysis Based on New Archival Evidence, Memoirs, and Interviews
Hannes Adomeit(Author)
Nomos (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 29. April 2016
Book
Hardback
756 pages
978-3-8487-2452-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book focuses on the dynamics which led to the division of Germany - a process that occurred by default rather than design; the role played in that process by the Soviet Union under Stalin; the reasons why his successors, from Khrushchev to the Communist Party general secretaries Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, stubbornly clung to the division of Germany for almost half a century; their increasing realisation of the 'costs of an empire'; the failure of their attempts to stop East Germany's increasing dependence on West Germany; and, finally, the reasons why Gorbachev accepted the dissolution of the Soviet empire, abandoned his 'strategic ally' and consented to the unified Germany's membership of NATO. The Soviet Union, the book concludes, had overextended itself in its attempt to maintain imperial control by the constant application of 'hard power'. The lesson for today is obvious, but Putin appears set to repeat the fateful course pursued by his Soviet predecessors.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baden-Baden
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 22.7 cm
Width: 15.3 cm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
1114 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8487-2452-9 (9783848724529)
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Hannes Adomeit
Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev
An Analysis Based on New Archival Evidence, Memoirs, and Interviews
E-Book
06/2016
2nd Edition
Nomos
€154.60
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Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev
An Analysis Based on New Archival Evidence, Memoirs, and Interviews
Book
01/1998
1st Edition
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€40.00
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