Format:
xiii, 263 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm (pbk.)
ISBN:
9780367784409
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9780367194413
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in modern European history 71
Content:
Brinkmanship and intransigence at the frontier -- Enclaves and exclaves -- S-Bahn incidents -- The paramilitary response to threatened invasions -- Policing demonstrations and protests near the border -- Illicit smuggling -- Wanderers between two worlds -- The murky world of espionage -- The art of kidnapping -- Impact of the Berlin Wall.
Content:
"As fought in 1950s Berlin, the Cold War was a many-headed monster. Winning stomachs with enticing consumption was as important as winning hearts and minds with persuasive propaganda. Demonstrators not only fought the police in the streets; they were swayed one way or another by cultural competition. Western espionage agencies waged brazen but surreptitious covert warfare, while the Stasi fought back with a campaign of targeted kidnapping. This book takes seriously a complex borderscape, which narrowed but did not stem the flow of people, ideas and goods over an open boundary. Assessing the licit and the illicit, the book stresses the messy and entwined nature of this war of a thousand cuts / miniscule salami slices. While brinkmanship was orchestrated by the elites in Moscow and Washington, the effects of such intense psychological pressure were felt by ordinary Berliners, who sought to carry on with their mundane."--
Note:
Literaturangaben
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429202377
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429510991
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429517853
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429514425
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Fenemore, Mark Fighting the Cold War in Post-Blockade, Pre-Wall Berlin Milton : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9780429510991
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Fenemore, Mark, 1973 - Fighting the Cold War in post-blockade, pre-wall Berlin London : New York, 2019 ISBN 9780429202377
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Berlin
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Alltag
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Ost-West-Konflikt
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Geschichte 1948-1961
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Berlin
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Alltag
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Ost-West-Konflikt
;
Geschichte 1948-1961
Author information:
Fenemore, Mark 1973-
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