The Decision to Divide Germany
Author : John H. Backer
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : John H. Backer
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
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Author : Carolyn Woods Eisenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521627177
Eisenberg argues that the United States made the decision to divide Germany, and that this was the key development in the emergence of the Cold War.
Author : John H. Backer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 1976
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Author : David Pierce Beatty
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Benn Steil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198757913
Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393320107
Historian Ambrose studies the political and military aspects of Eisenhower's decision to leave Berlin to the Russian army in the waning days of the European War.
Author : Mary Sarotte
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0465064949
On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall—infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe—seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was not planned by the East German ruling regime—nor was it the result of a bargain between either Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It was an accident. In The Collapse, prize-winning historian Mary Elise Sarotte reveals how a perfect storm of decisions made by daring underground revolutionaries, disgruntled Stasi officers, and dictatorial party bosses sparked an unexpected series of events culminating in the chaotic fall of the Wall. With a novelist’s eye for character and detail, she brings to vivid life a story that sweeps across Budapest, Prague, Dresden, and Leipzig and up to the armed checkpoints in Berlin. We meet the revolutionaries Roland Jahn, Aram Radomski, and Siggi Schefke, risking it all to smuggle the truth across the Iron Curtain; the hapless Politburo member Günter Schabowski, mistakenly suggesting that the Wall is open to a press conference full of foreign journalists, including NBC’s Tom Brokaw; and Stasi officer Harald Jäger, holding the fort at the crucial border crossing that night. Soon, Brokaw starts broadcasting live from Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, where the crowds are exulting in the euphoria of newfound freedom—and the dictators are plotting to restore control. Drawing on new archival sources and dozens of interviews, The Collapse offers the definitive account of the night that brought down the Berlin Wall.
Author : Astrid M. Eckert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0190690054
West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of the Federal Republic and the German re-unification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. The book is the first environmental history of the Iron Curtain.
Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199754128
"In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism."--Inside jacket.
Author : Christa Wolf
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2013-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0776620355
First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions they gradually develop but, very concretely, by the Berlin Wall, which went up on August 13, 1961. The story is set in 1960 and 1961, a moment of high political cold war tension between the East Bloc and the West, a time when many thousands of people were leaving the young German Democratic Republic (the GDR) every day in order to seek better lives in West Germany, or escape the political ideology of the new country that promoted the "farmer and peasant" state over a state run by intellectuals or capitalists. The construction of the Wall put an end to this hemorrhaging of human capital, but separated families, friends, and lovers, for thirty years. The conflicts of the time permeate the relations between characters in the book at every level, and strongly affect the relationships that Rita, the protagonist, has not only with colleagues at work and at the teacher's college she attends, but also with her partner Manfred (an intellectual and academic) and his family. They also lead to an accident/attempted suicide that send her to hospital in a coma, and that provide the backdrop for the flashbacks that make up the narrative. Wolf's first full-length novel, published when she was thirty-five years old, was both a great literary success and a political scandal. Accused of having a 'decadent' attitude with regard to the new socialist Germany and deliberately misrepresenting the workers who are the foundation of this new state, Wolf survived a wave of political and other attacks after its publication. She went on to create a screenplay from the novel and participate in making the film version. More importantly, she went on to become the best-known East German writer of her generation, a writer who established an international reputation and never stopped working toward improving the socialist reality of the GDR.