Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Détente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973Univ of North Carolina Press, 3 באפר׳ 2003 - 328 עמודים Using new archival sources--including previously secret documents of the East German secret police and Communist Party--M. E. Sarotte goes behind the scenes of Cold War Germany during the era of detente, as East and West tried negotiation instead of confrontation to settle their differences. In Dealing with the Devil, she explores the motives of the German Democratic Republic and its Soviet backers in responding to both the detente initiatives, or Ostpolitik, of West Germany and the foreign policy of the United States under President Nixon. Sarotte focuses on both public and secret contacts between the two halves of the German nation during Brandt's chancellorship, exposing the cynical artifices constructed by negotiators on both sides. Her analysis also details much of the superpower maneuvering in the era of detente, since German concerns were ever present in the minds of leaders in Washington and Moscow, and reveals the startling degree to which concern over China shaped European politics during this time. More generally, Dealing with the Devil presents an illuminating case study of how the relationship between center and periphery functioned in the Cold War Soviet empire. |
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Opposing Devils | 1 |
1 Setting the Stage in 1969 | 7 |
2 Speaking Civilly FacetoFace in the First Half of 1970 | 37 |
3 Discovering the Perils of Bargaining in the Secon Half of 1970 | 65 |
4 Expediting Negotiations in 1971 | 87 |
5 Achieving Initial Aims in 19711972 | 113 |
6 Sealing the Bargain in 19721973 | 135 |
The Costs of Dealing with the Devil | 163 |
The Bureaucracy of Evil | 181 |
Notes | 189 |
Bibliography | 269 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abrasimov According Allg ambassador archive Author’s interview BA-V Bahr’s Basic Treaty Bericht Berlin talks Beziehungen Bonn border Brezhnev BStU Bundeskanzler Büro Ulbricht China Chinese Cold Cold War conversation delegation détente Deutschland Deutschlandpolitik discussed Document without title East Berlin economic Egon Bahr Erfurt Erich Honecker Falin files foreign policy Garthoff GDR’s Genossen Dr German-German talks Gespräch goal Gromyko Henry Kissinger Hermann Axen Honecker’s Ibid Information IntVer issue June Kalbslederband Kassel Kissinger’s Kohl’s leaders Machtwechsel Markus Wolf meeting memoirs Michael Kohl Ministry Moscow Treaty nation negotiations Nixon official Ostpolitik party Politburo political Potthoff Quadripartite Agreement ratification relations SAPMO SED Politburo SED’s Seidel Soviet Union Staatssekretär Bahr Stasi Stenografische Niederschrift suggested summary superpower tion transit Treffen University Press USSR Verhandlungen Verlag Vermerk Walter Ulbricht West German Western allies Willi Stoph Willy Brandt Winzer worry Zeit ZK der SED