TY - BOOK ID - 1775858 TI - From Ostpolitik to reunification : West German-Soviet political relations since 1974 PY - 2002 VL - 85 SN - 0521401666 052189333X 0511562934 9780521401661 9780521893336 9780511562938 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - anno 1980-1989 KW - Germany KW - Russian Federation KW - Germany (West) KW - Soviet Union KW - Foreign relations KW - Russia KW - Germany [West ] KW - 1975-1985 KW - 1985-1991 KW - Germany (West) - Foreign relations - Soviet Union. KW - Soviet Union - Foreign relations - Germany (West) KW - Soviet Union - Foreign relations - 1975-1985. KW - Soviet Union - Foreign relations - 1985-1991. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Germany (West) - Foreign relations - Soviet Union KW - Soviet Union - Foreign relations - 1975-1985 KW - Soviet Union - Foreign relations - 1985-1991 KW - Allemagne KW - Relations KW - Russie KW - U.r.s.s. KW - Relations exterieures KW - 20e siecle UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1775858 AB - With the signing of the Moscow Treaty in 1970, West German-Soviet relations came to the forefront of world politics. Two decades later, the historic opening of the Berlin Wall and German reunification once again focused world attention on the Federal Republic's relations with the USSR. This book explores the development of this relationship from the perspective of West Germany. Dr Avril Pittman outlines the main events after the Second World War and then focuses on four issues central to this relationship in the 1970s and early 1980s. She explores family reunification and emigration rights for ethnic Germans living in the Soviet Union; the central role of Berlin and the reasons why the city persisted as a serious bilateral problem; the triangular relations between West Germany, the Soviet Union and East Germany; and the significance of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan which led to a sharp deterioration in East-West relations. ER -