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States of Division - Border and Boundary Formation in Cold War Rural Germany (Hardcover)
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States of Division - Border and Boundary Formation in Cold War Rural Germany (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History
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States of Division analyses the division of Germany and the
development of the Iron Curtain during the four and a half decades
of the Cold War. The centerpiece of this global fault-line was the
thousand-mile-long border dividing Germany into West and East. This
long border traversed primarily rural peripheries and the
development of division along it entailed protracted processes of
social and cultural demarcation. Unlike the Berlin Wall, which
sprang up overnight in the urban enclave under watchful eyes of
Soviet and Western armies, the inter-German border evolved slowly
through interactions between frontier residents and various state
agencies. The division of Germany and of the world emerged through
conflicts between everyday practices, economic necessities,
policies of German and foreign governments, and their ability to
push these policies through. The division of Germany was a
multi-faceted process, which progressed slowly and unevenly. States
of Division demonstrates that along with the crucial context of the
Cold War, multiple historical and social frameworks are required to
decipher division and explain how and where it took place. Dividing
a modern integrated society along a thousand-mile border was not
planned or intended by the allies and at no stage was agreed upon
by East and West German authorities. It gave rise to contradictions
and conflicts with practice and tradition, undermining economy and
culture in the borderlands, and required protracted negotiations
and considerable resources. It was not a fait accompli of Yalta or
Potsdam, nor was it completed with the construction of the Berlin
Wall in 1961. German division only stabilized as a sociopolitical
fact through the inter-German compromise of the 1970s, which also
planted the seeds of its undoing. Integrating local, regional and
national perspectives, this volume tells a complex story, showing
how diplomacy and policy affected daily practices and were affected
by them.
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