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Stalin's Bilateral Friendship Treaties and the Consolidation of a Soviet Bloc (1943–49) Stalin's Bilateral Friendship Treaties and the Consolidation of a Soviet Bloc (1943–49)
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Khrushchev: Erosion of the Friendship-Treaty System and Integration of the GDR Khrushchev: Erosion of the Friendship-Treaty System and Integration of the GDR
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The People's Republic of China and the Friendship-Treaty System The People's Republic of China and the Friendship-Treaty System
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Khrushchev and the Soviet–GDR Friendship Treaty (1964) Khrushchev and the Soviet–GDR Friendship Treaty (1964)
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Brezhnev's Reconsolidation of the Soviet Alliance System Brezhnev's Reconsolidation of the Soviet Alliance System
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The Brezhnev Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty and the Friendship-Treaty System The Brezhnev Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty and the Friendship-Treaty System
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Further Reading Further Reading
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15 The Truth About Friendship Treaties: Behind The Iron Curtain
Get accessDouglas Selvage is staff researcher at the Office of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records in Berlin for the project, ‘The Ministry for State Security and the CSCE Process’. Previously, at the Historian's Office of the U.S. Department of State, he edited Foreign Relations of the United States: European Security, 1969–1976, along with other co-edited volumes. He also won the Link-Kuehl Prize for Documentary Editing of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for Soviet-American Relations: The Detente Years, 1969–1972 (co-edited with David Geyer, 2007). He is a frequent contributor to the publications of the Cold War International History Project and the Parallel History Project. He also served as principal investigator for the National Endowment for the Humanities grant project, ‘The Cold War and Human Security: Translations for the Parallel History Project’.
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
The basic, legal building blocks for the Soviet sphere of influence during the Cold War were the bilateral ‘Treaties of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance’ between the states of East Central Europe and the Soviet Union. Germany was the main potential enemy, but the treaties also applied to any state allied with it or any third state in general – most importantly, the United States. This article traces the evolution of the East Central European states' limited sovereignty from the origins of the friendship-treaty system during World War II through to its final reformulation in the mid-1970s. In terms of the Soviet bloc friendship treaties, one can speak of three periodsm the first of which began with the establishment of the system of friendship treaties under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, 1943–1948, and ended with his death in 1953. A second period began after Stalin's death in 1953 and the eventual assumption of power by Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, whose removal ushered in a third and final period for the friendship-treaty system under his successor, Leonid Brezhnev.
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