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Author Adomeit, Hannes.

Title Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev : an Analysis Based on New Archival Evidence, Memoirs, and Interviews
Published Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.- KG, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Internationale Politik und Sicherheit ; Volume 48
Internationale Politik und Sicherheit ; Volume 48.
Contents Table 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
Summary The 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
Analysis Eastern Europe
Germany
Political Science
Soviet Empire
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Knowledge Unlatched 101164
Subject International relations.
Politics and government.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Comparative Politics.
International relations
Politics and government
SUBJECT Germany -- Relations -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- Relations -- Germany
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1945-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001651
Subject Germany
Soviet Union
Genre/Form technical reports.
Technical reports.
Rapports techniques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783848724529
3848724529
9783845266114
3845266112