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The nuclear crisis : the arms race, Cold War anxiety, and the German peace movement of the 1980s /

"In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO's deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Becker-Schaum, Christoph, 1952- (Editor ), Gassert, Philipp (Editor ), Klimke, Martin (Editor ), Mausbach, Wilfried, 1964- (Editor ), Zepp, Marianne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Colección:Protest, culture and society ; v. 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The Nuclear Crisis, NATO's double-track decision, and the peace movement of the 1980s / Christoph Becker-Schuam, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach, and Marianne Zepp
  • From Helsinki to Afghanistan: the CSCE process and the beginning of the Second Cold War / Anja Hanisch
  • The NATO double-track decision: genesis and implementation / Tim Geiger
  • SS-20 and Pershing II: weapon systems and the dynamization of East-West relations / Oliver Bange
  • NATO's double-track decision and East-West German relations / Hermann Wentker
  • Political parties / Jan Hansen
  • Eco-pacificsm: the environmental movement as a source for the peace movement / Silke Mende and Birgit Metzger
  • Rationality of fear: the intellectual foundations of the peace movement / Marianne Zepp
  • The institutional organization of the peace movement / Christoph Becker-Schaum
  • The spaces and places of the peace movement / Susanne Schregel
  • The protagonists of the peace movement / Saskia Richter
  • The independent peace movement in East Germany / Rainer Eckert
  • Visual and media strategies of the peace movement / Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Laura Stapane
  • The churches / Sebsastian Kalden and Jan Ole Wiechmann
  • Trade unions / Dietmar Süss
  • The police / Michael Sturm
  • "Men build missiles": the women's peace movement / Reinhild Kreis
  • Nuclear attack and civil defense: preparing for the worst-case scenario in politics and science / Claudia Kemper
  • Nuclear doomsday scenarios in film, literature, and music / Philipp Baur
  • A triumph of disarmament? The 1980s and the international political system / Florian Pressler.