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Driving the Soviets up the Wall : Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961.

The 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 fro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harrison, Hope M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Dynamics of Soviet-East German Relations in the Early Cold War; Chapter One: 1953 Soviet-East German Relations and Power Struggles in Moscow and Berlin; Chapter Two: 1956-1958 Soviet and East German Policy Debates in the Wake of the Twentieth Party Congress; Chapter Three: 1958-1960 Khrushchev Takes on the West in the Berlin Crisis; Chapter Four: 1960-1961 Ulbricht, Khrushchev, and the Berlin Wall; Conclusion; Notes; Note on Sources; Bibliography; Index.