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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465604003321

Autore

Spilker Dirk <1966->

Titolo

The East German leadership and the division of Germany [[electronic resource] ] : patriotism and propaganda 1945-1953 / / Dirk Spilker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-151582-5

9786611154059

1-281-15405-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Oxford historical monographs

Disciplina

943/.10874

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Territorial questions - Germany

Electronic books.

Germany History 1945-1955

Soviet Union Foreign relations 1945-1991

Germany (East) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--St. Anthony's College, Oxford, 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-277) and index.

Nota di contenuto

'It should look democratic--' : the German communists and the birth of the SED -- Nationwide goals and zonal priorities : the KPD/SED and the German question from Potsdam to Bizonia -- Between hope and despair : the SED and the consolidation of the SBZ -- Unity postponed : the SED and the founding of the GDR -- Retreat and retrenchment : the SED and the German question in the early 1950s.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the most detailed and up-to-date study of the division of Germany after the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished documents, Dirk Spilker reveals the political realities of the situation in post-war Germany, and reassesses the motivations and actions of the Western Allies and the Soviet bloc as they manoeuvred to achieve their ends. - ;Would it have been possible to build a unified and democratic Germany half a century before the fall of the Berlin Wall? This book reassesses this question by exploring Germany's division after the Second World War from the point of view