German-Russian Century

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German-Russian Century

History of a Tangled Relationship

Creuzberger, Stefan; Janik, Elizabeth

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

03/2026

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Inglês

9781509565719

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I. INTRODUCTION: EXCAVATING THE PAST


II. REVOLUTION AND TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
Prerevolutionary Lifeworlds
Tactical Respite: The Road to the October Revolution and Peace of Brest-Litovsk (1917/18)
'Arise, Ye Workers': Hopes for World Revolution
Caesuras in an Age of Radicalism: The Nazi Seizure of Power and the Dictators' Pact
Building Socialism in a Divided Germany, 1945-49
Diplomatic Transformations? Adenauer's Visit to the Soviet Union and Brandt's Moscow Treaty
Losing the GDR: The Kremlin and Reunification


III. TERROR AND VIOLENCE
Clash of the Empires: August 1914 and the 'Forgotten War' in Eastern Europe
From a Global Conflagration to Civil War: Fertile Soil for Radicalization
The Power of Ideologies? Totalitarian Encounters
'Friendship Sealed by Blood': Terror and Political Cooperation
Battlefield of the Dictators: The Ideological War of Annihilation
Victors and Vanquished: Flight, Expulsion, and Stalinist Terror in the SBZ/GDR
Flashbacks: Memory Culture and Totalitarian Violence


IV. DISTANCING AND RAPPROCHEMENT
Ambivalent Times: German-Russian Encounters in the Rapallo Era
Totalitarian Dictatorships: Stalin's Overtures to Hitler and the Proxy War in Spain
Unnatural Alliance: From the Hitler-Stalin Pact to Operation Barbarossa
Coerced Cooperation: Reparations and Dismantling after Germany's Defeat
Trilateral Relations in the Cold War: Political Crises and Rapprochement, Economic Diplomats and Cultural Bridge Builders
Gorbachev's Perestroika: A Fraying Brotherhood and Easier Relations with Bonn
From Ostpolitik to Frostpolitik: Partnership and Confrontation in the Post-Soviet Era
Zeitenwende? Putin's War in Ukraine and the Germans


V. THE GERMAN-RUSSIAN CENTURY: SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE


Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Notes
Index
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Russia's relationship with Germany; Wandel durch Handel; normalisation of relations with Russia; rapprochement; appeasement; imperial Russia; imperial Germany; Second Reich; Tsarist Russia; October Revolution; USSR; Soviet Empire; Cold War; ideology and foreign policy towards Russia; Russia's invasion of Ukraine; Moscow; Berlin; Bonn; St Petersburg; Leningrad; war between Russia and Germany; how has the relationship between Germany and Russia changed?; how has the relationship between Germany and Russia affected Europe?; how has the relationship between Germany and Russia affected the rest of the world?