Black Market, Cold War

ISBN-13: 9780521864961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 374 str.

Paul Steege

Opis

This book explains how and why Berlin became the symbolic capital of the Cold War. Paul Steege anchors his account of this emerging global conflict in the terrain of a city literally shattered by World War II. By focusing on what happened 'on the ground' in Berlin, the book shows how ordinary people mattered for the development of a global Cold War that dominated world affairs for four decades and offers an interpretive framework with which to reevaluate international conflict in the present.

Recenzje

'Steege's fascinating book is a superb example of 'history from below'. He is not the first historian to have examined the lives of the people of Berlin in this period, but no one has illuminated the interaction between daily life and global politics as effectively as he does.' Journal of European Studies

Spis treści

1. Postwar Berlin: the continuities of scarcity; 2. October 1946: rolling back Soviet power; 3. June 1947: Berlin politics in the shadow of the black market; 4. March 1948: Berlin and the struggle for the Soviet Zone; 5. August 1948: battle lines on the Potsdamer Platz; 6. June 1949: ending the blockade.