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019 _a(OCoLC)984549742
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020 _a9781400840724
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024 7 _a10.1515/9781400840724
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400840724
035 _a(DE-B1597)446948
035 _a(OCoLC)979954393
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050 4 _aDD284.5.S65
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072 7 _aPOL011000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHarrison, Hope M.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDriving the Soviets up the Wall :
_bSoviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961 /
_cHope M. Harrison.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2003
300 _a1 online resource (368 p.) :
_b3 maps.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aPrinceton Studies in International History and Politics ;
_v132
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Maps --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAbbreviations --
_tINTRODUCTION. The Dynamics of Soviet-East German Relations in the Early Cold War --
_tCHAPTER ONE. 1953. Soviet-East German Relations and Power Struggles in Moscow and Berlin --
_tCHAPTER TWO. 1956-1958. Soviet and East German Policy Debates in the Wake of the Twentieth Party Congress --
_tCHAPTER THREE. 1958-1960. Khrushchev Takes on the West in the Berlin Crisis --
_tCHAPTER FOUR. 1960-1961. Ulbricht, Khrushchev, and the Berlin Wall --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tNote on Sources --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe Berlin Wall was the symbol of the Cold War. For the first time, this path-breaking book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the communists' decision to build the Wall in 1961. Hope Harrison's use of archival sources from the former East German and Soviet regimes is unrivalled, and from these sources she builds a highly original and provocative argument: the East Germans pushed the reluctant Soviets into building the Berlin Wall. This fascinating work portrays the different approaches favored by the East Germans and the Soviets to stop the exodus of refugees to West Germany. In the wake of Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviets refused the East German request to close their border to West Berlin. The Kremlin rulers told the hard-line East German leaders to solve their refugee problem not by closing the border, but by alleviating their domestic and foreign problems. The book describes how, over the next seven years, the East German regime managed to resist Soviet pressures for liberalization and instead pressured the Soviets into allowing them to build the Berlin Wall. Driving the Soviets Up the Wall forces us to view this critical juncture in the Cold War in a different light. Harrison's work makes us rethink the nature of relations between countries of the Soviet bloc even at the height of the Cold War, while also contributing to ongoing debates over the capacity of weaker states to influence their stronger allies.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400840724
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400840724
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