Table of Contents

* Preface-Timothy Garton Ash and Gerhard A. Ritter * 'Special Relations' between Russia and Germany in the Twentieth Century - A Closed Chapter? Karl Schloegel, Frankfurt (Oder) * Before the Great War: German Entrepreneurs in Russia - Russian Scholars in Germany. Two Types of Russian-German Relations in the Decades Before the First World War Dittmar Dahlmann, Bonn * Thomas Mann and Others: Russophilism and Sovietophilia Among German Conservatives Gerd Koenen, Frankfurt am Main * Berlin: 'Stepmother' Among Russian Cities Karl Schloegel, Frankfurt (Oder) * German Emigrants in Soviet Exile: A Drama in Five Acts Carola Tischler, Berlin * The Strange Allies - Red Army and Reichswehr in the Interwar Period Manfred Zeidler, Frankfurt am Main * Facing the Ostfront: The Other War in German Memory Peter Jahn, Berlin * Patriots or Traitors? - The Soviet Government and the 'German Russians' After the Attack on the USSR by National Socialist Germany Viktor Krieger, Heidelberg * 'Vot ona prokliataia Germaniia!' Germany in Early 1945 Through the Eyes of Red Army Soldiers Elke Scherstjanoi, Berlin * Supervision and Abdication - East German Intellectual Life under Soviet Tutelage Jens Reich, Berlin * German-Russian Relations in the Early Twenty-first Century. Some Reflections on Normalcy. Klaus Segbers, Berlin

Promotional Information

This volume of new research in political and cultural history examines the turbulent relationship between Russia and Germany in the twentieth century.

About the Author

Karl Schlöegel is Professor and Chair of East European History at Europa University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).

Reviews

'The well-researched and well-written papers present a perspective on German-Russian relations from the early twentieth century until the present with a view into the later twenty-first century.' German Studies Review 31/1 (2008)