|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 Drawing on a wealth of unpublished documents, Dirk Spilker reveals the political realities of the situation in post-war Germany, and reassesses the motivations and actions of the Western Allies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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|