TY - BOOK ID - 77883789 TI - Driving the Soviets up the Wall PY - 2011 SN - 1283133415 9786613133410 1400840724 9781400840724 0691124280 9780691124285 0691124280 9780691124285 0691096783 9780691096780 PB - Princeton, NJ DB - UniCat KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. KW - Soviet Union KW - Germany (East) KW - Germany (Democratic Republic, 1949- ) KW - Deutsche Demokratische Republik KW - Tyske demokratiske republik KW - Democratic German Republic KW - German Democratic Republic KW - East German Democratic Republic KW - East Germany (Democratic Republic) KW - DDR KW - Germanskai︠a︡ Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Nĕmecká demokratická republika KW - NDR KW - Nimet︠s︡ʹka Demokratychna Respublika KW - GDR KW - Niemiecka Republika Demokratyczna KW - NRD KW - Német Demokratikus Köztársaság KW - NDK KW - Tyska demokratiska republiken KW - Östtyskland KW - Republica Democrată Germană KW - Repubblica democratica tedesca KW - Germany (Democratic Republic) KW - D.D.R. KW - N.D.R. KW - G.D.R. KW - N.R.D. KW - N.D.K. KW - República Democrática Alemana KW - RDA KW - R.D.A. KW - Ostdeutschland KW - Eastern Germany KW - Cộng hòa dân chủ Đức KW - Germany KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) KW - Germany (West) KW - Советский Союз KW - Ber. ha-M. KW - Zwia̦zek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich KW - Szovjetunió KW - TSRS KW - Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga KW - SRSR KW - Soi︠u︡z Radi︠a︡nsʹkykh Sot︠s︡ialistychnykh Respublik KW - SSSR KW - Soi︠u︡z Sovetskikh Sot︠s︡ialisticheskikh Respublik KW - UdSSR KW - Shūravī KW - Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Ishtirākīyah-i Shūrāʼīyah KW - Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.) KW - Sovetskiy Soyuz KW - Soyuz SSR KW - Sovetskiĭ Soi︠u︡z KW - Soi︠u︡z SSR KW - Uni Sovjet KW - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics KW - USSR KW - SSṚM KW - Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Ṛespublikaneri Miutʻyun KW - SSHM KW - Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Hanrapetutʻyunneri Miutʻyun KW - URSS KW - Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas KW - Berit ha-Moʻatsot KW - Rusyah KW - Ittiḥād al-Sūfiyītī KW - Rusiyah KW - Rusland KW - Soṿet-Rusland KW - Uni Soviet KW - Union soviétique KW - Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Uls KW - Związek Radziecki KW - ESSD KW - Sahaphāp Sōwīat KW - KhSHM KW - SSR Kavširi KW - Russland KW - SNTL KW - PSRS KW - Su-lien KW - Sobhieṭ Ẏuniẏana KW - FSSR KW - Unione Sovietica KW - Ittiḥād-i Shūravī KW - Soviyat Yūniyan KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Relations KW - Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich KW - ZSRR KW - Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Sowieckich KW - ZSRS KW - History of Germany and Austria KW - History of Eastern Europe KW - anno 1950-1959 KW - anno 1960-1969 KW - Germany (GDR) KW - Russia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77883789 AB - The Berlin Wall was the symbol of the Cold War. For the first time, this path-breaking book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the communists' decision to build the Wall in 1961. Hope Harrison's use of archival sources from the former East German and Soviet regimes is unrivalled, and from these sources she builds a highly original and provocative argument: the East Germans pushed the reluctant Soviets into building the Berlin Wall. This fascinating work portrays the different approaches favored by the East Germans and the Soviets to stop the exodus of refugees to West Germany. In the wake of Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviets refused the East German request to close their border to West Berlin. The Kremlin rulers told the hard-line East German leaders to solve their refugee problem not by closing the border, but by alleviating their domestic and foreign problems. The book describes how, over the next seven years, the East German regime managed to resist Soviet pressures for liberalization and instead pressured the Soviets into allowing them to build the Berlin Wall. Driving the Soviets Up the Wall forces us to view this critical juncture in the Cold War in a different light. Harrison's work makes us rethink the nature of relations between countries of the Soviet bloc even at the height of the Cold War, while also contributing to ongoing debates over the capacity of weaker states to influence their stronger allies. ER -