Uprising in East Germany, 1953
The Cold War, the German Question, and
the First Major Upheaval behind the Iron Curtain
Edited by Christian F. Ostermann, Director
of the Cold War International History Project Foreword
by Charles Mailer, Harvard University
"This document collection is invaluable for Cold
War scholars and belongs in every academic library."
- German Studies Review
Christian F. Ostermann is director of the Cold War
International History Project, editor of the CWIHP Bulletin,
a senior fellow at the US National Security Archive,
and an expert on the Cold War in Germany. Before joining
CWIHP in January 1997, he worked as a research fellow
at the National Security Archive at George Washington
University. He won the DAAD Article Award of the German
Studies Association for "Best Article in German Studies
(History), 1994-1996".
This volume is the second in the series Cold War
Documentary Readers, a project of the US National
Security Archive and the Cold War International History
Project.
The volume is the first documented account of this
early Cold War crisis from both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Based on the recent unprecedented access to the once-closed
archives of several member states of the Warsaw Pact,
this collection of primary-source documents presents
one of the most notorious events of post-war European
history in a highly readable format.
Previously unreleased Kremlin records, once highly
classified American documents, materials from the Soviet
Foreign Ministry, and transcripts of internal East German
Communist Party Politburo meetings in the days leading
to the uprising in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
are among the highlights of this sensational documentary.
In this volume, as in the previous one in the series,
each part is preceded by a detailed introductory essay
to provide the necessary historical and political context.
The individual documents are introduced by short headnotes
summarizing the contents and orienting the reader. A
chronology, glossary and bibliography offer further
background information.
"Das Buch ist nicht nur als "Reader"
für Lehreveranstaltungen an Universitäten
und für ein thematisch interessiertes breiteres
Publikum geeignet, sonden bietet auch forschenden Historikern
einen guten Ausgangspunkt für wissenschaftliche
Weiterarbeit." - Osteuropa
2001, 2003
492 pages 170 mm x 243 mm (6.6" x 9.5")
ISBN 978-963-9241-17-6 cloth $63.95 / €53.95 / £38.95
ISBN 978-963-9241-57-2 paperback $35.00 / €29.95 /
£25.00
Published in the series: National Security Archive
Cold War Readers, ISSN 1587-2416
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