From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations, 1955-1980: 34 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 34)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Revised ed., 10/30/2003
EAN 9780521521376, ISBN10: 0521521378
Paperback, 344 pages, 21.6 x 13.8 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
Professor Stent examines the development of Soviet-West German relations from both the Russian and German sides using extensive Soviet and West German sources. Hers is the first book in English to cover these topics. She has used a wide variety of materials including documents from the Kennedy administration and interviews with German government officials and business leaders.
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The German problem and linkage politics
2. The long road to moscow
the origins of linkage, 1955
3. From diplomacy to trade
1955–1958
4. Trade and the Berlin crisis
1958–1961
5. The pipe embargo
1962–1963
6. The failure of linkage
1964–1968
7. Brandt's Ostpolitik and the Soviet response
1969–1970
8. From Moscow to Bonn
the consolidation of Ostpolitik and Westpolitik, 1970–1980
9. Beyond Ostpolitik and Westpolitik
the economics of detente
10. Normalization and the future of Soviet-West German relations
Notes
Bibliography
Index.