No End to “Political Ideological Diversion”
No End to “Political Ideological Diversion”

The Stasi Perspective as Circumstancial Evidence for a Long Détente

Author(s): Oliver Bange
Subject(s): Political history, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: Stasi;East Germany;Warsaw Pact
Summary/Abstract: This chapter analyzes the ongoing détente process in Europe between the late 1960s and the end of the 1980s via the lens of the Stasi mechanism in East German society. By examining the workings of the Stasi during this time—their modus operandi and their ways of circumnavigating multilateral agreements—we observe a kind of “negative exposure” that demonstrates the continuing impact of East-West détente on both East European societies and the autocratic regimes within the Warsaw Pact.

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