
A Cold War In The Soviet Bloc
Polish-east German Relations, 1945-1962
Sheldon Anderson(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 13. June 2019
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-367-09656-4 (ISBN)
Description
In A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Sheldon Anderson uses recently declassified documents from Polish and East German communist party and foreign ministry archives to examine the interplay of national interests with the exigencies of communist party relations within the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. Anderson explores how Polish-East German relations were strained over the permanence of the Oder-Neisse border, the correct road to socialism, German repatriation from Poland, and trade policy; he provides an inside account of the heated debates that seriously divided the Polish and East German communists.Anderson delves into how and why the rift culminated in the return of the anti-Stalinist Wladyslaw Gomulka in October 1956, and he delineates how the Polish-East German conflict undermined the unity of the Soviet bloc on its most strategic flank. In doing so, he reveals the persistence of nationalism and ethnic prejudice in the former communist countries. In this timely text, Anderson pinpoints how nationalism has reemerged as a powerful political force following the end of the Cold War. With A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Anderson markedly fills the gap in the existing scholarship on postwar relations between the countries of East Europe.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
638 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-09656-4 (9780367096564)
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Content
Introduction , "There Are No Good Germans": The Myth of Proletarian Internationalism, 1945-1949 , The Controversy over the Oder-Neisse Border, 1946-1949 , The Myth of the Stalinist Brotherhood, 1949-1954 , The Problems of German Repatriation, Reparations, and Trade, 1945-1953 , German Remilitarization and the Polish Thaw, 1954-1955 , Khrushchev's De-Stalinization Speech and Gomulka's Return to Power, January-October, 1956 , The Cold Winter of Polish-East German Relations, 1956-1957 , Gomulka's Trade Policies and the Recurring Problem of German Repatriation, 1953-1957 , Gomulka's Foreign Policy and the Ulbricht-Gomulka Summit, 1956-1957 , The Rapacki Plan and the German Question, 1957-1959 , The Right Road to Socialism and Ulbricht's Visit to Poland, 1958-1959 , The GDR as a Model for Polish Socialism, 1959-1961 , The Berlin Wall and the Detente in Polish-East German Relations, 1961-1962 , Conclusion