A Cold War In The Soviet Bloc: Polish-east German Relations, 1945-1962

A Cold War In The Soviet Bloc: Polish-east German Relations, 1945-1962

by Sheldon Anderson
A Cold War In The Soviet Bloc: Polish-east German Relations, 1945-1962

A Cold War In The Soviet Bloc: Polish-east German Relations, 1945-1962

by Sheldon Anderson

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813337838
Publisher: Westview Press
Publication date: 12/01/2000
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1710L (what's this?)

About the Author

Sheldon Anderson is an Associate Professor of History and International Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Anderson holds a Ph.D. in History, and he specializes in Cold War diplomacy and East Central European history. He has published several books and articles on related subjects. Anderson is a recipient of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Grant, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Grant, the Fulbright-Hayes Grant to Czechoslovakia, and the University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

Table of Contents

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 Gomu?ka's Return to Power, January–October, 1956 , The Cold Winter of Polish–East German Relations, 1956–1957 , Gomu?ka's Trade Policies and the Recurring Problem of German Repatriation, 1953–1957 , Gomu?ka's Foreign Policy and the Ulbricht-Gomu?ka 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 Détente in Polish–East German Relations, 1961–1962 , Conclusion
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