Open AccessRole of «Zvezda» Project in Germany’s Unification Process
Author(s) -
Aleksandr Kamkin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
naučno-analitičeskij vestnik instituta evropy ran
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2618-7914
DOI - 10.15211/vestnikieran6202094102
Subject(s) - unification , german , government (linguistics) , politics , political science , process (computing) , key (lock) , german government , public administration , political economy , sociology , law , computer science , history , linguistics , archaeology , programming language , operating system , philosophy , computer security
The article is devoted to «Zvezda» project – an unique political and economic think tank, which combined in 1974–1984 the best representatives of academic institutions of socialist countries. The author analyses its impact on creation a basis for the acceptance by Soviet government the idea of the necessary unification of Germany, studies the attempt to initiate a dialogue about possibility of the unification, starting from the well-known memo of Soviet government from 1952, evaluates initiatives by Willy Brandt regarding decreasing of tensions in relations between two German countries, analyses main stages and key vectors of the project. He comes to conclusion that the initiatives by participants of the project created to some extend the basis for transformation of Soviet external policy and subsequent unification of Germany. The main idea of the article is to uncover the content of «Zvezda» project and its impact on transformation of Soviet external policy, which almost has not been studied by present time yet.