Moscow, Germany, and the West from Khrushchev to Gorbachev (Studies of the Harriman Institute) - Softcover

Sodaro, Michael J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801497620 ISBN 13: 9780801497629

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Winner of the 1991 Marshall Shulman Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

The 1990s promise a new era for Europe and for East-West relations, as the two German states, which epitomized the continent's postwar division, move rapidly toward reunification. In this authoritative account of Soviet-German relations during the critical decades leading up to this revolutionary development, Michael J. Sodaro provides a comparative analysis of Soviet and East German foreign policy toward West Germany of unparalleled scope and originality.

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In 1963, there was one USSR and more than one Germany; by 1990 this situation was reversed. Sodaro (political science, George Washington Univ.) has analyzed this dramatic turn of events in detail, drawing on Soviet, German, and other sources, as well as personal contacts made with scholars at the Institute of the World Economy in Moscow. He characterizes Soviet-German relations as "a contradictory policy that oscillated between detente and discord while straining to have both at once." This ambivalence is gone, a victim of recent events. Although the military analysis is weaker than the political, this comprehensive study is worthwhile reading for informed laypersons.
- John Yurechko, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801497620
• ISBN 13: 9780801497629
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 456