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A Cold War In The Soviet Bloc: Polish-east German Relations, 1945-1962
Contributor(s): Anderson, Sheldon (Author)

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 ISBN: 0813337836     ISBN-13: 9780813337838
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $61.70  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2000
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Annotation: This book explores the Polish and East German communist parties' pursuit of conflicting national interests--rather than common socialist goals--during the height of the Cold War, and how this weakened the unity of the Soviet bloc.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | International Relations - General
- History | Europe - Germany
- History | Eastern Europe - General
Dewey: 327
LCCN: 00063305
Lexile Measure: 1710(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.04 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Cultural Region - Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region - Germany
Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product
Review Citations: Choice 06/01/2001 pg. 1848
 
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Publisher Description:
In A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Sheldon Anderson uses recently declassified documents from Polish and East German communist party and foreign ministry archives to examine the interplay of national interests with the exigencies of communist party relations within the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. Anderson explores how Polish-East German relations were strained over the permanence of the Oder-Neisse border, the correct road to socialism, German repatriation from Poland, and trade policy; he provides an inside account of the heated debates that seriously divided the Polish and East German communists.Anderson delves into how and why the rift culminated in the return of the anti-Stalinist Wladyslaw Gomulka in October 1956, and he delineates how the Polish-East German conflict undermined the unity of the Soviet bloc on its most strategic flank. In doing so, he reveals the persistence of nationalism and ethnic prejudice in the former communist countries. In this timely text, Anderson pinpoints how nationalism has reemerged as a powerful political force following the end of the Cold War. With A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Anderson markedly fills the gap in the existing scholarship on postwar relations between the countries of East Europe.
 
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