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Mit seiner aggressiven Berlin-Politik - Ultimatum 1958 und Mauerbau 1961 - ging der sowjetische Partei- und Regierungschef Chruschtschow ein Risiko ein, das sich kaum noch kalkulieren ließ. Die sowjetischen Quellen belegen, dass die sowjetische Führung in der zweiten Berlin-Krise vor allem unter Beachtung militärstrategischer Gesichtspunkte agierte. Infolgedessen eskalierte der Rüstungswettlauf derart, dass die sowjetische Rüstungsindustrie kostspielige Waffenprojekte auch gegen die gesamtwirtschaftlichen Interessen der Staatsführung durchsetzen konnte. Der militärisch-industriell-akademische Komplex in der Sowjetunion ist daher der eigentliche Gewinner der zweiten Berlin-Krise.

Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989. --- Cold War. --- Berlin (Germany) --- Germany (West) --- Soviet Union --- History --- Foreign relations --- World politics --- Berlin wall (1961- ) --- Berliner Mauer, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989

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The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and upheaval: from the way they voted, the newspapers they read, to the brand of butter they bought. But what was it really like to go from living under communism one minute, to capitalism the next? What did the East Germans make of capitalism? And how do they remember the GDR today? Are their memories dominated by fear and loathin

Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989. --- Berlin Wall (Germany : 1961-1989) --- 1961 - 1989 --- Germany (East) --- Berlin (Germany) --- Germany --- Germany. --- Social conditions. --- History

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A bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on the generation that shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt their shattered country and emerged as one of the leading nations of the Western liberal world. In his debut work, Noah Strote analyzes this remarkable turnaround and challenges the widely held perception that the Western Allies-particularly the United States-were responsible for Germany's transformation. Instead, Strote draws from never-before-seen material to show how common opposition to Adolf Hitler united the fractious groups that had once vied for supremacy under the Weimar Republic, Germany's first democracy (1918-1933). His character-driven narrative follows ten Germans of rival worldviews who experienced the breakdown of Weimar society, lived under the Nazi dictatorship, and together assumed founding roles in the democratic reconstruction.   While many have imagined postwar Germany as the product of foreign-led democratization, this study highlights the crucial role of indigenous ideas and institutions that stretched back decades before Hitler. Foregrounding the resolution of key conflicts that crippled the country's first democracy, Strote presents a new model for understanding the origins of today's Federal Republic.

Economics. --- Economics --- Berlin Wall (Germany : 1961-1989) --- 1918-1989 --- Germany --- Germany. --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions

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"1980 was a turning point in American history. When the year began, it was still very much the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a sluggish economy marked by high inflation, and the disco still riding the airwaves. When it ended, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a landslide, inaugurating a rightward turn in American politics and culture. We still feel the effects of this tectonic shift today, as even subsequent Democratic administrations have offered neoliberal economic and social policies that owe more to Reagan than to FDR or LBJ. To understand what the American public was thinking during this pivotal year, we need to examine what they were reading, listening to, and watching. 1980: American Culture in Transition puts the news events of the era-everything from the Iran hostage crisis to the rise of televangelism-into conversation with the year's popular culture. Separate chapters focus on the movies, television shows, songs, and books that Americans were talking about that year, including both the biggest hits and some notable flops that failed to capture the shifting zeitgeist. As he looks at the events that had Americans glued to their screens, from the Miracle on Ice to the mystery of Who Shot JR, cultural historian Jim Cullen garners surprising insights about how Americans' attitudes were changing as they entered the 1980s"--

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The long path to the Berlin Wall began in 1945, when Josef Stalin instructed the Communist Party to take power in the Soviet occupation zone while the three Western allies secured their areas of influence. When Germany was split into separate states in 1949, Berlin remained divided into four sectors, with West Berlin surrounded by the GDR but lingering as a captivating showcase for Western values and goods. Following a failed Soviet attempt to expel the allies from West Berlin with a blockade in 1948-49, a second crisis ensued from 1958-61, during which the Soviet Union demanded once and fo

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