How did Germany come to be divided during the Cold War? The renowned German historian Wilfired Loth has examined the archives of the Eastern side and comes to fascinating conclusions. He demonstrates that Stalin wanted neither a separate state on the soil of the Soviet Occupation Zone nor a socialist state in Germany at all. Instead, Stalin sought a joint administration of Germany by the victorious powers, a Germany along the lines of the Weimar Republic. The socialist separate state of the GDR is primarily the product of Walter Ulbricht's revolutionary zeal, which was able to unfold in the context of the Western walling-off policy.

Stalin's Unwanted Child: The Soviet Union, the German Question and the Founding of the GDR

History

Loth, Wilfried

Europe

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This guide is a much-needed reference for clinicians on how to use the Rorschach Inkblot Test with senior adults, an essential tool for assessing personality functioning to better identify psychological interventions. The book integrates historical developments, current research, conceptual considerations, and therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Chapters review basic guidelines for the understanding and interpretation of Rorschach variables, including protocol validity; interpretation of structural variables, thematic imagery, and cross-cultural normative data; sequence analysis; and more. The authors then provide ten case illustrations of how the Rorschach indices of cognitive functioning, emotional experience, interpersonal relatedness, and self-perception can facilitate differential diagnosis and treatment planning in clinical work with older people. These case illustrations are rooted in previously non-existent Rorschach reference data based on an international sample of more than 250 senior adults and a second sample of more than 200 patients with Alzheimer's disease. Clinicians will come away with a solid empirical basis for distinguishing between normal range personality functioning and manifestations of psychological disorder in the elderly and for providing beneficial interventions to senior adult patients.

The division of the world, 1941-1955

Routledge

The Making of Détente

Soutou, George

Taylor&Francis

Building Europe: A History of European Unification

Wilfried Loth erzählt die Entstehung und Entwicklung der Europäischen Union auf der Grundlage interner Quellen, von der Lancierung des Europarats und des Schuman-Plans bis zur Euro-Krise und zur umkämpften Wahl von Jean-Claude Juncker zum Präsidenten der Europäischen Kommission. Krisen der europäischen Integration wie das Scheitern der Europäischen Verteidigungsgemeinschaft, die "Krise des leeren Stuhls" in der Ära de Gaulle oder die Ablehnung des Verfassungsvertrags in Frankreich und in den Niederlanden werden ebenso beleuchtet wie unzweifelhafte Erfolge: die deutsch-französische Aussöhnung, die Schaffung eines Gemeinsamen Marktes, die zahlreichen Erweiterungen und die Etablierung einer Gemeinschaftswährung. Auf diese Weise wird zum ersten Mal deutlich, welche Antriebskräfte hinter dem europäischen Integrationsprozess stehen und wie er Politik und Gesellschaft in Europa verändert. "Ein aufklärerisches Werk. Pflichtlektüre für alle, die an der unvollendeten Geschichte Europas (ver-)zweifeln" - Rolf Steininger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "Das Buch wird zum unabdingbaren Standardwerk" - Jörg Himmelreich, Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Relying on internal sources, Wilfried Loth analyses the birth and subsequent development of the European Union, from the launch of the Council of Europe and the Schuman Declaration until the Euro crisis and the contested European presidential election of Jean-Claude Juncker. This book shines a light on the crises of the European integration, such as the failure of the European Defence Community, De Gaulle`s empty chair policy, or the rejection of the European Constitution in France and the Netherlands, but also highlights the indubitable successes that are the Franco-German reconciliation, the establishment of the European common market, and the establishment of an expanding common currency. What this study accomplishes, for the first time, is to illuminate the driving forces behind the European integration process and how it changed European politics and society.""An enlightening work. Arequired reading for all who doubt the unfinished history of Europe."" – Rolf Steininger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.""This book will become an indispensable standard work."" – Jörg Himmelreich, Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

World

Die Teilung der Welt. Geschichte des Kalten Krieges 1941-1955.

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