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Author Krause, Scott H., author

Title Bringing Cold War democracy to West Berlin : a shared German-American project, 1940-1972 / Scott H. Krause
Edition 1st
Published London : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Routledge studies in modern European history
Contents <P><STRONG>Contents</STRONG></P><P><I>Acknowledgments</I> <B><P></B><I>A note on naming conventions and language</I></P><B><P></P><P></P><P>Introduction</P></B><P>Literature</P><P>An epistemic community crafting political narratives for democratization</P><P>Sources</P><P>Organization of the book</P><P>Notes</P><P>Bibliography</P><P> </P><B><P>Chapter 1: Berlin, capital of ruins, 1945−1948</P><P>I. </B>Decisions made and deferred at Potsdam, July 1945</P><B><P>II. </B>Berlin, Soviet prize of war</P><B><P>III. </B>Competing narratives in interpreting postwar Berlin</P><B><P>IV. </B>The contested meaning of democracy</P><B><P>V. </B>Escalation, 1947-1948</P><P>Notes</P><P>Bibliography</P><P> </P><B><P>Chapter 2: Origins of the Outpost network, 1933-1949</P><P>I. </B>Political fragmentation of the German left, 1932-1941</P><B><P>II. </B>Wartime exile in New York City, 1941-1949</P><B><P>III. </B>Support for "freedom" and origin of the Outpost network</P><B><P>IV.</B> Reconstitution of the Outpost network in West Berlin</P><P>Notes</P><P>Bibliography</P><P> </P><B><P>Chapter 3: Rise of the Outpost narrative in the wake of the Berlin airlift, 1948-1953</P><P>I.</B> The Berlin airlift as embodiment of the Outpost narrative</P><B><P>II.</B> Berlin activities of Shepard Stone's Public Affairs Division</P><B><P>III.</B> RIAS, the network's principal media outlet</P><B><P>IV.</B> Campaigns to institute Cold War democracy in West Berlin</P><B><P>V.</B> Campaigns to remake postwar social democracy</P><P>Notes</P><P>Bibliography</P><P> </P><B><P>Chapter 4: Triple crisis, 1953</P><P>I.</B> Background: waging the Cultural Cold War</P><B><P>II.</B> Uprising in East Berlin</P><B><P>III.</B> The GDR's obsession with RIAS</P><B><P>III.</B> McCarthyism reaches West Berlin</P><B><P>IV.</B> Reuter's death and the network's resilience</P><B><P>V.</B> 1953 as watershed</P><P>Notes</P><P>Bibliography</P><P> </P><B><P>Chapter 5: Ascent to leadership, 1954-1961</P><P>I.</B> The emergence of Willy Brandt as new figurehead of the network</P><B><P>II.</B> Brandt as new SPD candidate for a new West Berlin</P><B><P>III.</B> Coordinated activities of the network</P><B><P>IV.</B> Fashioning West Berlin as the Cold War democracy</P><P>Notes</P><P>Bibliography</P><P> </P><B><P>Chapter 6: Public acceptance and reinterpretation, 1961-1972</P><P>I.</B> Construction of the Wall as a turning point for network and narrative</P><B><P>II.</B> Broad acceptance of the narrative and creeping disillusionment of the network</P><B><P>III.</B> Marginalization of the past in exile for national leadership in Bonn</P><B><P>IV.</B> Holdouts in Berlin facing a new generation of leftwing activists</P><B><P>V.</B> Berlin as laboratory of Chancellor Brandt's Neue Ostpolitik</P><P>Notes</P><P>Bibliography</P><P> </P><B><P>Conclusion: Excavating the Outpost of Freedom on the Spree</P><P>I.</B> The city</P><B><P>II.</B> The narrative</P><B><P>III.</B> The network</P><B><P>IV.</B> The legacies</P><P>Notes</P><P>Bibliography</P><P> </P><I><P>Glossary</P></I>
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Subject Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany (West)
Diplomatic relations.
Politics and government.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
SUBJECT Berlin (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1945-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013353
Germany (West) -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- Germany (West)
Subject Germany -- Berlin.
Germany (West)
United States.
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