Dealing with the devil
Subtitle: East Germany, détente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973
By: M.E. Sarotte
Series: The new Cold War history
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Detente; Germany (East) -- Politics and government; Germany (West) -- Foreign relations -- Europe, Eastern; Europe, Eastern -- Foreign relations -- Germany (West)
Description: Going behind the scenes of Cold War Germany during the era of detente, this text studies how East and West tried negotiation instead of confrontation to settle their differences. It reveals how the relationship between centre and periphery functioned in the Cold War Soviet empire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-287) and index