scholarly journals Socialisms Between Cooperation and Competition: Ideology, Aid and Cold War Politics in Tanzania’s relations with East Germany

2021 ◽  
pp. 613-642
Author(s):  
Eric Burton
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
East Germany ◽  
Cooperation And Competition

POLITICS AND THE CASE OF POETRY: ARENDT ON BRECHT

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 503-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATCHEN MARKELL
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
East Germany ◽  
Bertolt Brecht ◽  
Transnational History ◽  
Full Reconstruction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Poetic Practice ◽  
War Discourse

Hannah Arendt's essay on Bertolt Brecht has often been understood as an indictment of Brecht's postwar accommodation with the Stalinist regime in East Germany, in line with Arendt's supposed commitment to a firm separation between poetry and politics. Offering the first full reconstruction of the transnational history of Arendt's writing on Brecht, this article shows instead that Arendt's essay was a defense of Brecht against the polemics it is often taken to exemplify. Joining poetry to politics by holding both at a distance from philosophy, Arendt assigned poetry the vocation of disruptive faithfulness to factual reality, which allowed her to praise Brecht on political grounds and to leverage forbearance for his political “sins.” Indeed, by narrating Brecht's “sins” and “punishment” against the grain of Cold War discourse about the poet, Arendt's essay emulated aspects of the poetic practice she admired in Brecht's writing.

Spies, Sex, and Balloons

2019 ◽  
pp. 192-216
Author(s):  
Benjamin Tromly
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
East Germany ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
State Security ◽  
East German ◽  
Central Representation ◽  
The City ◽  
Divided Germany ◽  
Cross National

Chapter 8 examines the Russian exiles’ anti-communist activities in divided Germany and particularly Berlin, the city whose penetrable internal border made it the essential base for Cold War human-intelligence activities. The CIA utilized the NTS and another Russian organization, the Central Representation of Postwar Emigrants (TsOPE), in operations devoted to inciting defection among Soviet soldiers and civilians positioned in East Germany. Utilizing documents from the East German Ministry for State Security, the chapter examines the Berlin operations and the Soviet and East German actions to thwart them. It focuses attention on how Russian exile agendas in Germany became reliant on the East German civilians who were recruited to spread propaganda and interact with Soviet soldiers and civilians. In this way, the espionage conflicts in Berlin were a transnational affair involving cross-national contacts and networks.

‘The Continuation of Politics by Other Means’: Britain, the Two Germanys and the Olympic Games, 1949–1972

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. GERALD HUGHES ◽  
RACHEL J. OWEN
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
East Germany ◽  
West Germany ◽  
German State ◽  
German States ◽  
British Perspective ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
International Sport ◽  
The Olympic Games

AbstractThis article evaluates the interplay between international sport and international politics during the cold war through an examination of the two Germanys and the Olympics from a British perspective. Germany was at the centre of Olympic and cold war politics between 1945 and the early 1970s, and the two German states competed fiercely over questions of national legitimacy. West Germany was initially successful in denying international recognition to the ‘other’ German state. East Germany countered this by developing a strategy that utilised international sport, particularly the Olympic Games, to further its claims for statehood. While recognising the flaws in the West German case against East Germany, British policy was constrained by the need to accommodate Bonn's sensibilities, given that the Federal Republic was a major ally. An examination of this ‘Olympian’ struggle from a British perspective tells us much about the West's cold war strategy and casts new light on this arena of East–West competition.

German Reunification from Three Angles

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Robert Gerald Livingston
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
East Germany ◽  
German Reunification ◽  
German Unification ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
American Diplomacy ◽  
The Cold War

Robert L. Hutchings, American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War: An Insider’s Account of U.S. Policy in Europe, 1989-1992 (Washington, D.C. and Baltimore: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)Charles S. Maier, Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and The End of East Germany (Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1997)Peter E. Quint, The Imperfect Union: Constitutional Structures of German Unification (Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1997)

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