A01=Sheldon Anderson
Author_Sheldon Anderson
Category=NH
Cold War diplomacy research
communist party archives
East German
East German Communists
East German Delegation
East German Diplomat
East German Embassy
East German Foreign Ministry
East German Journalist
East German Officials
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ethnic prejudice Europe
FRG
GDR Official
intra-bloc conflict analysis
Neues Deutschland
Oder Neisse Border
Oder Neisse Line
Po Prostu
Poland's Trade
Polish Diplomat
Polish East German Relations
Polish Military Mission
postwar nationalism
PZPR Central Committees
Rapacki Plan
SED Leader
SED Member
socialist state relations
Soviet bloc politics
Trybuna Ludu
West German
West Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9780367096564
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Sheldon Anderson uses recently declassified documents from Polish and East German communist party and foreign ministry archives to examine the interplay of national interests with the exigencies of communist party relations within the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. Anderson explores how Polish-East German relations were strained over the permanence of the Oder-Neisse border, the correct road to socialism, German repatriation from Poland, and trade policy; he provides an inside account of the heated debates that seriously divided the Polish and East German communists.Anderson delves into how and why the rift culminated in the return of the anti-Stalinist Wladyslaw Gomulka in October 1956, and he delineates how the Polish-East German conflict undermined the unity of the Soviet bloc on its most strategic flank. In doing so, he reveals the persistence of nationalism and ethnic prejudice in the former communist countries. In this timely text, Anderson pinpoints how nationalism has reemerged as a powerful political force following the end of the Cold War. With A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Anderson markedly fills the gap in the existing scholarship on postwar relations between the countries of East Europe.
Sheldon Anderson
