LEADER 03285cam a22003854a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20211112160250.0 006 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 007 ta 008 021023s2003 nju b 001 0 eng 010 2002192693 020 0691096783 (alk. paper) 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC |dhubpceuo |bEnglish 041 eng 042 pcc 043 e-ge---e-ur--- 050 00 DD284.5.S65 |bH368 2003 082 00 327.43/1047/09045 |221 100 1 Harrison, Hope Millard, |d1963- 245 10 Driving the Soviets up the wall : |bSoviet-East German relations, 1953-1961 / |cHope M. Harrison. 260 Princeton, N.J. : |bPrinceton University Press, |c2003. 300 xx, 345 p. ; |c25 cm. 440 0 Princeton studies in international history and politics 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-335) and index. 505 Introduction: The Dynamics of Soviet-East German Relations in the Early Cold War -- 1. 1953: Soviet-East German Relations and Power Struggles in Moscow and Berlin -- 2. 1956-1958: Soviet and East German Policy Debates in the Wake of the Twentieth Party Congress -- 3. 1958-1960: Khrushchev Takes on the West in the Berlin Crisis -- 4. 1960-1961: Ulbricht, Khrushchev, and the Berlin Wall -- Conclusion. 520 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. 651 0 Germany (East) |xRelations |zSoviet Union. 651 0 Soviet Union |xRelations |zGermany (East) 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6327_430000000000000_1047_09045_HAR |70 |8GEN |9155414OSA |bOSA |d2021-11-12 |eOSA |l0 |o327.43/1047/09045 HAR |r2021-11-12 |w2021-11-12 |yBK |zDonation of Márk László-Herbert. |cOSA Repository 920 01 kojZNnoO 992 01 327_430000000000000_1047_09045_HAR |bWXS_VWZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_YZVS_ZQZVU_IP8 966 |cIn the Research Room