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200 10$aImperial Overstretch $eGermany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev : An Analysis Based on New Archival Evidence, Memoirs, and Interviews /$fHannes Adomeit
210  1$aBaden-Baden, Germany :$cNomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG,$d2016.
215   $a1 online resource (757 pages)
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $aTable of Contents -- List of Tables -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1: THE SOVIET EMPIRE -- Chapter 1: Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations -- PART 2: EXPANSION -- Chapter 2: The Imperial and Ideological Paradigm -- Chapter 3: The Comprehensive Crisis of Empire -- PART FOUR: COLLAPSE -- Chapter 4: Gorbachev's Old and New Thinking -- Chapter 5: Domestic Implications of Gorbachev's German Policy -- Chapter 6: The Last Crisis -- CONCLUSIONS -- The Gorbachev Era -- Collapse of the Soviet Empire: The Utility of Theories of Imperialism -- Lessons Unlearned: Putin in Brezhnev's Footsteps -- APPENDIX -- Notes on Archival Research -- Biographical Notes -- List of Interviews -- Bibliography -- Glossary and Abbreviations -- Register.
330   $aThe book is an analysis of the rise and fall of the Soviet empire in what, during the Cold War, was called 'Eastern Europe'. Its central focus is the role played by the German problem in that process.
517   $aImperial Overstretch
606   $aInternational relations
606   $aPolitics and government
607   $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1945-1990
615  0$aInternational relations.
615  0$aPolitics and government.
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