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After two chapters that recapitulate WWI, WWII, the division of Germany, the Cold War and the era of detente, Stent (From Embargo to Ostpolitik), a professor of government at Georgetown, turns her attention to the course of Russian-German relations since Gorbachev ascended to power in Moscow. She emphasizes both the continuity and the unexpectedness in relations between Russia and Germany once Gorbachev's domestic program of perestroika began to bleed into the realm of foreign affairs. Gorbachev and the Communist Party, she writes, had no intention of facilitating the reunification of Germany, but history outran their capacity to manage events. Meanwhile, Germany, under Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, was determined to see unification, whatever the economic cost. Because Russia was beset with conflicts between Gorbachev's redefined foreign policy and increasing domestic turmoil, Gorbachev and his foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, were forced to make uncomfortable geopolitical concessions in return for German aid. Following events up to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of NATO?over the strenuous but impotent objections of Boris Yeltsin?into the former Soviet bloc, Stent provides a concise history of Russian-German relations after the Cold War and persuasively argues that, whatever transpires, the relationship between the two countries will be as decisive in shaping the European futire as it was in shaping the past. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Though many have tried to tell the story of unification, no American has described as well as Ms. Stent the German-Soviet dynamics that led to the revolutionary changes of 1989-91." -- Frederick Kempe, Wall Street JournalDeftly [explains] complex events that led to the German reunification. It was never as inevitable as it seemed in retrospect. -- Ralph Amelan, The Jerusalem PostStent combines a detailed account of Soviet politics and decision-making up to German unification with thoughtful reflection on why this thoroughly unimagined outcome came about. The prose and tale are highly readable, not least because the gap between the scale of the stakes involved and the drift and lameness of Soviet foreign policy is so stunning. But Stent does not stop here. She traces the Russian-German relationship since unification and ponders the place of both countries in a very different Europe. -- Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs, May 1st 1999To this library Angela Stent's fine book may now be added. It focuses on an insufficiently examined aspect of these events, namely, relations between the Soviet Union and West and East Germany, and then on German-Russian relations since 1990. Stent wants to explore what she calls the great puzzle: why and how Moscow assented to what had always been depicted as its worst postwar political nightmare- a united Germany in NATO. -- Jeffrey Herf, The New Republic, February 4th 2000



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Author(s) Book :Angela Stent
Publish Year :1998 Publisher : Princeton University Press
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