Bringing Cold War Democracy to West Berlin

Bringing Cold War Democracy to West Berlin

A Shared German-American Project, 1940-1972

Krause, Scott

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2018

284

Dura

Inglês

9781138299856

15 a 20 dias

557

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Contents; Acknowledgments; A note on naming conventions and language; Introduction; Literature; An epistemic community crafting political narratives for democratization; Sources; Organization of the book; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 1: Berlin, capital of ruins, 1945?1948; I. Decisions made and deferred at Potsdam, July 1945; II. Berlin, Soviet prize of war; III. Competing narratives in interpreting postwar Berlin; IV. The contested meaning of democracy; V. Escalation, 1947-1948; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Origins of the Outpost network, 1933-1949; I. Political fragmentation of the German Left, 1932-1941; II. Wartime Exile in New York City, 1941-1949; III. Support for "freedom" and origin of the Outpost network; IV. Reconstitution of the Outpost network in West Berlin; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Rise of the Outpost narrative in the wake of the Berlin airlift, 1948-1953; I. The Berlin airlift as embodiment of the Outpost narrative; II. Berlin activities of Shepard Stone's Public Affairs Division; III. RIAS, the network's principal media outlet; IV. Campaigns to institute Cold War democracy in West Berlin; V. Campaigns to remake postwar social democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Triple crisis, 1953; I. Background: waging the Cultural Cold War; II. Uprising in East Berlin; III. The GDR's obsession with RIAS; III. McCarthyism reaches West Berlin; IV. Reuter's death and the network's resilience; V. 1953 as watershed; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Ascent to leadership, 1954-1961; I. The emergence of Willy Brandt as new figurehead of the network; II. Brandt as new SPD candidate for a new West Berlin; III. Coordinated activities of the network; IV. Fashioning West Berlin as the Cold War democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Public acceptance and reinterpretation, 1961-1972; I. Construction of the Wall as a turning point for network and narrative; II. Broad acceptance of the narrative and creeping disillusionment of the Network; III. Marginalization of the past in exile for national leadership in Bonn; IV. Holdouts in Berlin facing a new generation of leftwing activists; V. Berlin as laboratory of Chancellor Brandt's Neue Ostpolitik; Notes; Bibliography; Conclusion: Excavating the Outpost of Freedom on the Spree; I. The city; II. The narrative; III. The network; IV. The legacies; Bibliography; Glossary
West Berlin;Postwar Berlin;Modern History;Neu Beginnen;West Germany;Modern German History;Shepard Stone;Cold War;Cold War Democracy;Willi Brandt;Freedom Narrative;Konrad Adenauer;Cold War Berlin;Anti-Communism;American Occupation Authorities;Scott H. Krause;SED Leadership;Postwar Germany;Neue Ostpolitik;Landesarchiv Berlin;SED Central Committee;Liberal Democratic Political Frameworks;West Berlin Government;Deutsche Fotothek;Berlin Airlift;GDR Regime;Conservative CDU;SPD Campaign;ERP Fund;Wall's Construction;David Schine;Ich Bin Ein Berliner