The emergence of East Germany as one of Europe's most vocal advocates of East-West détente in the 1980s represented a remarkable political transformation. Prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, East Germany had been amongst the most intransigent proponents of the Cold War, largely because...

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Beteilige Person:	McAdams, Arthur James 1954- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1985
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet studies 49
Schlagwörter:	Geschichte 1961-1984 Geschichte 1961-1980 Außenpolitik Politik Detente Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 Entspannungspolitik Innenpolitik Politisches System Germany (East) / Politics and government Germany (East) / Foreign relations Deutschland > DDR
Links:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521874 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521874 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521874
Zusammenfassung:	The emergence of East Germany as one of Europe's most vocal advocates of East-West détente in the 1980s represented a remarkable political transformation. Prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, East Germany had been amongst the most intransigent proponents of the Cold War, largely because of the perceived threat to the domestic authority of its own leadership. Renewed exposure, however, prompted that leadership to regard good relations with the West as integral rather than inimical to its own pursuit of legitimacy. Of interest not only to scholars of communist politics but to all students of East-West affairs, Professor McAdams' study demonstrates both the changing historical significance of the idea of detente, and the way in which non-superpower states can take initially adverse circumstances and turn them into instances of opportunity
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Umfang:	1 online resource (xi, 233 pages)
ISBN:	9780511521874
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511521874