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Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev / Chapter 4: Gorbachev’s Old and New Thinking
Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev / Chapter 4: Gorbachev’s Old and New Thinking
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis
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PREFACE
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Persisting Myths
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‘Imperial Overstretch’ under Putin
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‘Eastern Europe’
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Personal Background and Thanks
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Transliteration of Russian Terms
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17–30
INTRODUCTION
17–30
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Sources of Evidence
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31–64
PART ONE: THE SOVIET EMPIRE
31–64
Chapter 1: Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations
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1. Conceptual Approaches
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2. Metrocentric Approaches
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3. Pericentric Approaches
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4. International Systemic and Structural Approaches
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5. Transnational Approaches
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6. An Integrative Approach
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65–230
PART TWO: EXPANSION
65–230
65–162
Chapter 2: The Imperial and Ideological Paradigm
65–162
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1. Parameters of the Paradigm
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The Ideological Dimension
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The Imperial Dimension
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2. The Division of Germany: Design or Default?
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Option One: The ‘Revolutionary Transformation’ of Germany
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Option Two: Emasculation of Germany
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Option Three: Division and Dismemberment
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Option Four: Neutralization of Germany
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3. The Paradigm Applied: East Germany and Eastern Europe
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4. The Impact of the Berlin Blockade and the Korean War
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5. Stalin’s 1952 ‘Peace Note’: Lost Opportunity or Political Manoeuvre?
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6. Imperial Dilemmas: Beria and the Crisis in the GDR
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7. Imperial Dilemmas: The Berlin Wall
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8. Consolidation of the Soviet Empire and the ‘Correlation of Forces’
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9. Soviet Responses to West Germany’s Ostpolitik
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10. Soviet Responses to East Germany’s Assertiveness
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163–230
Chapter 3: The Comprehensive Crisis of Empire
163–230
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1. The Crisis of Ideology
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2. Military Power and Declining Political Influence
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3. Declining Economic Performance and the "Costs of Empire"
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The Military-Industrial Complex and the Challenge of SDI
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4. The Domestic Political Crisis
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5. The Impact of the Crisis on Soviet-East German Relations
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6. The Impact of the Crisis on Soviet-West German Relations
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7. Debts, Dependency, and Intra-German Relations
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8. Pravda Articles of Faith
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9. The Chernenko-Honecker Emergency Meeting in Moscow
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Chernenko’s Response: The Empire Strikes Back
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The Ustinov-Honecker Exchanges
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The Gorbachev-Honecker Exchanges
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Summary
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231–708
PART FOUR: COLLAPSE
231–708
231–360
Chapter 4: Gorbachev’s Old and New Thinking
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1. The Paradigm of New Thinking
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2. Gorbachev: A Political Profile
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3. Gorbachev’s Perceptions of the German Problem
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4. East Germany: Strategic Ally but Waning Economic Asset
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The GDR in Gorbachev’s Economic Strategy
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Political Aspects of Soviet-East German Relations
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5. West Germany: Troublesome Tenant in Gorbachev’s ‘Common House of Europe’
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The Common House of Europe
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6. Priority for the Relations with the United States
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7. German Unification in a ‘Hundred Years’
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German Unity: ‘In a Hundred Years’?
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8. Gorbachev and Eastern Europe: Decline of the Will to Empire
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The Demise of the Brezhnev Doctrine
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Soviet-East German Relations: Deference versus Defiance
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Summary
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Chapter 5: Domestic Implications of Gorbachev’s German Policy
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1. The Institutional Setting
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2. The Academy of Sciences: International Relations Institutes and Specialists
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3. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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4. The CPSU: Politburo, Secretariat, and Central Committee Departments
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Yakovlev and the Party Apparat
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The Central Committee Departments and Commissions
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Comprehensive Reorganization of the Party Apparat
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Falin’s Role in Policy-Making
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5. The Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces
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Perestroika, Democratization, and Glasnost in the Armed Forces
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The Soviet Forces in the German Democratic Republic
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The Controversy Over the Use of Force
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6. The KGB
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The Impotence of Omnipotence
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KGB Operations in Germany
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Putin at the Dresden rezidentura
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463–682
Chapter 6: The Last Crisis
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1. The Transformed Internal and International Setting
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Mounting Domestic Problems
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Eastern Europe: Breaking Through the Socialist Framework
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West Germany: The New Soviet Priority
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2. The Demise of the Honecker Regime
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Truth and Consequences
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3. Gorbachev and Krenz
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4. The Collapse of the Berlin Wall
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German Unification on the National Agenda
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5. German Unification on the International Agenda
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Gorbachev, Genscher, and Kohl's ‘Diktat’
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European Concerns and the Four Power Card: Four Minus Two?
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6. Gorbachev's Acceptance of German Unification
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Acceleration of the Demise of the GDR
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Yielding the Key to German Unity
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7. Gorbachev's Consent to United Germany's Membership in NATO
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Gorbachev and the Atlantic Alliance
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Soviet Retrenchment
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Military and Party Opposition
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The Consent to NATO Membership
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The Demise of the Warsaw Pact
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The Balance Sheet: Defeat or ‘Win-Win’?
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The Myth of the NATO ‘Guarantee’ Not to Embark on Eastern Enlargement
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8. The ‘Price Tag’ of the Consent
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Negotiations on German Economic Assistance and the Kurile Islands
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683–708
CONCLUSIONS
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The Gorbachev Era
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Collapse of the Soviet Empire: The Utility of Theories of Imperialism
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Lessons Unlearned: Putin in Brezhnev’s Footsteps
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709–756
APPENDIX
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Notes on Archival Research
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Biographical Notes
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List of Interviews
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Bibliography
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Glossary and Abbreviations
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Abalkin, Leonid
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Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev , page 231 - 360
Chapter 4: Gorbachev’s Old and New Thinking
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Hannes Adomeit
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doi.org/10.5771/9783845266114-231
ISBN print: 978-3-8487-2452-9
ISBN online: 978-3-8452-6611-4
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