Alternatives for Germany

Dulles, Allen W.

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“…Subsequently, Josef Stalin could use these territories as a "carrot" in the process of negotiations on the unification of Germany. With a high degree of probability, the Germans could agree to a neutral status and the formation of a government with the predominance of left-wing parties in exchange for the return of territories east of the Oder-Neisse line (Dulles, 1947).…”

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German Question in 1945–1949: Research of the Problem in Anglo-American Historiography

Kaviaka

2018

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H i s t or i a i Pol it y k a • No. 2 4 (31)/2 018 Pa p e r s The German question in 1945-1949 represented a complex problem of determining the forms of the state-political and socioeconomic existence of Germany and finding its place in the new system of international relations. The solution of these tasks was planned to be carried out within the framework of the coordinated policy of the four Great Powers-the USSR, the United States, Great Britain and France. However, the inability of the Allies to work out a common course led to the formation of the two German states in 1949. When studying the German question in 1945-1949, British and American researchers follow mainly two directions. Representatives and followers of the "containment" school and rationalistic direction analyze the main stages in German question development using different approaches and methods. There have been revealed no special publications concerning the Anglo-American historiography on the German problem yet. At the same time, the research of different trends in Anglo-American historiography and their comparison with the main provisions of the Soviet historiography on the given problem will contribute to the complex study both of Anglo-American history science since World War II and German problem and its place in international relations during the cold war period. The "containment" school began to form in Western historiography at the turn of the 1940s-1950s and was based on the ideas of Anglo-American classical geopolitics. The term "containment" in relation to foreign policy of Western countries was proposed by the American diplomat, political scientist and historian George Frost Kennan. In 1946-1947 he theoretically substantiated the famous doctrine of "containment" of the USSR, the usage of which was to prevent the spread of the Soviet influence in Europe. In Anglo-American historiography the "containment" school took shape as an independent direction in the international relations and foreign policy studies in the postwar period. Proceeding from its principles and main provisions the "containment" school may also be characterized as a conservative approach in Anglo-American historiography of the problem. When analyzing the development of the German problem in 1945-1949 the representatives of this direction proceed from the fact that the defeat of Germany in the Second World War created a vacuum of power in Central Europe. The USSR, because of its geopolitical position, had the opportunity to fill it and establish continental domination. Britain and France were too weakened to form a counterweight to the Soviet power. In such a situation, the US had to assume the functions of deterring communism in Europe, which influenced directly the German policy of the West.

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German Question in 1945–1949: Research of the Problem in Anglo-American Historiography

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THE POLITICS OF ARENDTIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY: EUROPEAN FEDERATION ANDTHE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM

Selinger

2014

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Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism is a distinctively international history. It traces Nazism to a “collapse of the nation-state” across Europe, brought on by European anti-Semitism and European imperialism, rather than to specifically German developments. This essay recovers the political meaning of that methodological choice on Arendt's part, by documenting the surprising intersection between Arendt's involvement in political debates over postwar European reconstruction, where she made an intellectual alliance with Resistance groups across Europe and strongly argued for European federation, and her involvement in historiographical debates over the sources of Nazism. I show the explicit connection that Arendt drew between an internationalist historiography of Nazism and the need for an internationalist European politics, in a series of essays she wrote in the mid-1940s. I then argue that this connection continues to play a prominent role in Origins itself, sharply differentiating Arendt from other prominent theorists of Nazism.

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Alternatives for Germany

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German Question in 1945–1949: Research of the Problem in Anglo-American Historiography

German Question in 1945–1949: Research of the Problem in Anglo-American Historiography

THE POLITICS OF ARENDTIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY: EUROPEAN FEDERATION ANDTHE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM

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