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Adomeit

Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev

An Analysis Based on New Archival Evidence, Memoirs, and Interviews
Nomos,  2. Edition 2016, 756 Pages

ISBN 978-3-8487-2452-9


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The work is part of the series Internationale Politik und Sicherheit (Volume 48)
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englischThis book focuses on the dynamics which led to the division of Germany – a process that occurred by default rather than design; the role played in that process by the Soviet Union under Stalin; the reasons why his successors, from Khrushchev to the Communist Party general secretaries Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, stubbornly clung to the division of Germany for almost half a century; their increasing realisation of the ‘costs of an empire’; the failure of their attempts to stop East Germany’s increasing dependence on West Germany; and, finally, the reasons why Gorbachev accepted the dissolution of the Soviet empire, abandoned his ‘strategic ally’ and consented to the unified Germany’s membership of NATO. The Soviet Union, the book concludes, had overextended itself in its attempt to maintain imperial control by the constant application of ‘hard power’. The lesson for today is obvious, but Putin appears set to repeat the fateful course pursued by his Soviet predecessors.

»Mit diesem beeindruckenden Fundus an Material verifiziert Adomeit seine zentrale Hypothese, die Sowjetunion habe sich mit dem Versuch überfordert, ihr Imperium mit abzusichern.«
Manfred Groß, Politische Studien 2017, 76

»ein äußerst nützliches, äußerst detailreiches Werk zum Verständnis der politischen Entwicklung in Russland.«
Prof. Dr. Helga Haftendorn, PVS 2017, 491

»this monumental study holds up very well almost two decades later... Adomeit´s book remains an extremely important source.«
Prof. Dr. Roger E. Kanet, Europe-Asia Studies 2017, 694-695

»Dennoch trägt eine genaue Analyse dessen, was geschehen ist, sehr wohl zur Aufklärung in der Gegenwart bei uns gibt Hinweise für die Zukunft - diesen hohen Anspruch an die zeitgeschichtliche Diagnose löst der Band "Imperial Overstrech: Germany in [...]