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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      17 September 2009
      19 December 1985
      ISBN:
      9780511521874
      9780521268356
      9780521054966
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521874
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 248 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.331kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, European Studies, Politics and International Relations
      Series:
      Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (49)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, European Studies, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (49)
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    The emergence of East Germany as one of Europe's most vocal advocates of East-West détente in the 1980s represented a remarkable political transformation. Prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, East Germany had been amongst the most intransigent proponents of the Cold War, largely because of the perceived threat to the domestic authority of its own leadership. Renewed exposure, however, prompted that leadership to regard good relations with the West as integral rather than inimical to its own pursuit of legitimacy. Of interest not only to scholars of communist politics but to all students of East-West affairs, Professor McAdams' study demonstrates both the changing historical significance of the idea of detente, and the way in which non-superpower states can take initially adverse circumstances and turn them into instances of opportunity.

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