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Stalin's unwanted child : the Soviet Union, the German question, and the founding of the GDR / Wilfried Loth ; translated by Robert F. Hogg.
Van Pelt Library DD286.5 .L6713 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loth, Wilfried.
- Standardized Title:
- Stalins ungeliebtes Kind. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Military government.
- International relations.
- Germany (East)--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- Germany (East).
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Germany (East).
- Soviet Union.
- Germany (East)--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Military government--Germany (East).
- Military occupation.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 234 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- How did Germany come to be divided during the Cold War? Renowned German historian Wilfried Loth has examined the archives of the Eastern side. Here he demonstrates that Stalin wanted neither a separate state on the soil of the Soviet Occupation Zone nor a socialist state in Germany at all. Instead he sought a joint administration of Germany by the victorious powers, a Germany along the lines of the Weimar Republic. The socialist separate side of the GDR is primarily the product of Walter Ulbricht's revolutionary zeal, which was able to unfold in the context of the Western walling-off policy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-228) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0312210280
- OCLC:
- 37688312
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