Günter Wernicke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1418239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Günter Wernicke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Günter |
| FAMILY NAME | Wernicke |
| SIGNATURE | WERNICKE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cal Poly Humboldt |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Race to Tip the Scales
Drawing widely on archive material and recently published documents from both German states on the 1980s, the article examines the impact on a divided Germany of the nuclear arms spiral, from the end of the 1970s up to the collapse of socialist states East Germany and the Soviet Union. Drawing on personal reflections and talks with witnesses, the author describes contradictory attitudes in the World Peace Council and its East German counterpart t…
The Unity of Peace and Socialism? The World Peace Council on a Cold War Tightrope Between the Peace Struggle and Intrasystemic Communist Conflicts
The paper explores the theoretical unity between socialism and peace that motivated the communist‐dominated World Peace Council (WPC) in the Cold War. Within the broad WPC spectrum, intrasystemic conflicts were tangibly expressed around the Hungarian events of 1956. With growing differentiation in world communism, especially Sino‐Soviet conflict, tensions escalated when Warsaw Treaty states marched into Czechoslovakia in 1968. Instrumentalization…
Lifting the Iron Curtain
of the most unusual events of the cold war occurred between 7 August and 8 October 1961, when a group of Western peace activists staged anti-military protests in three key countries of the Communist bloc. In the final stage of the San Francisco to Moscow March for Peace, several dozen American and West European pacifists criticizing the nuclear arms race and calling for unilateral disarmament paraded across 1,268 miles of East Germany, Poland, an…
The Communist‐Led World Peace Council and the Western Peace Movements
Drawing widely on archive material, including previously inaccessible German Peace Council documents, the paper examines links between Western pacifists and the World Peace Council (WPC), initiated by communist parties in Eastern Europe, from the WPC's foundation until the mid‐1960s, when discussion about European security and detente began. From the angle of an East German peace historian and activist, the author describes contradictions in the …
The Unity of Peace and Socialism? The World Peace Council on a Cold War Tightrope Between the Peace Struggle and Intrasystemic Communist Conflicts
The paper explores the theoretical unity between socialism and peace that motivated the communist‐dominated World Peace Council (WPC) in the Cold War. Within the broad WPC spectrum, intrasystemic conflicts were tangibly expressed around the Hungarian events of 1956. With growing differentiation in world communism, especially Sino‐Soviet conflict, tensions escalated when Warsaw Treaty states marched into Czechoslovakia in 1968. Instrumentalization…
The Communist‐Led World Peace Council and the Western Peace Movements
Drawing widely on archive material, including previously inaccessible German Peace Council documents, the paper examines links between Western pacifists and the World Peace Council (WPC), initiated by communist parties in Eastern Europe, from the WPC's foundation until the mid‐1960s, when discussion about European security and detente began. From the angle of an East German peace historian and activist, the author describes contradictions in the …
The Race to Tip the Scales
Drawing widely on archive material and recently published documents from both German states on the 1980s, the article examines the impact on a divided Germany of the nuclear arms spiral, from the end of the 1970s up to the collapse of socialist states East Germany and the Soviet Union. Drawing on personal reflections and talks with witnesses, the author describes contradictory attitudes in the World Peace Council and its East German counterpart t…
Lifting the Iron Curtain
of the most unusual events of the cold war occurred between 7 August and 8 October 1961, when a group of Western peace activists staged anti-military protests in three key countries of the Communist bloc. In the final stage of the San Francisco to Moscow March for Peace, several dozen American and West European pacifists criticizing the nuclear arms race and calling for unilateral disarmament paraded across 1,268 miles of East Germany, Poland, an…
The Communist‐Led World Peace Council and the Western Peace Movements
Drawing widely on archive material, including previously inaccessible German Peace Council documents, the paper examines links between Western pacifists and the World Peace Council (WPC), initiated by communist parties in Eastern Europe, from the WPC's foundation until the mid‐1960s, when discussion about European security and detente began. From the angle of an East German peace historian and activist, the author describes contradictions in the …
Lifting the Iron Curtain
of the most unusual events of the cold war occurred between 7 August and 8 October 1961, when a group of Western peace activists staged anti-military protests in three key countries of the Communist bloc. In the final stage of the San Francisco to Moscow March for Peace, several dozen American and West European pacifists criticizing the nuclear arms race and calling for unilateral disarmament paraded across 1,268 miles of East Germany, Poland, an…
The Unity of Peace and Socialism? The World Peace Council on a Cold War Tightrope Between the Peace Struggle and Intrasystemic Communist Conflicts
The paper explores the theoretical unity between socialism and peace that motivated the communist‐dominated World Peace Council (WPC) in the Cold War. Within the broad WPC spectrum, intrasystemic conflicts were tangibly expressed around the Hungarian events of 1956. With growing differentiation in world communism, especially Sino‐Soviet conflict, tensions escalated when Warsaw Treaty states marched into Czechoslovakia in 1968. Instrumentalization…
The Race to Tip the Scales
Drawing widely on archive material and recently published documents from both German states on the 1980s, the article examines the impact on a divided Germany of the nuclear arms spiral, from the end of the 1970s up to the collapse of socialist states East Germany and the Soviet Union. Drawing on personal reflections and talks with witnesses, the author describes contradictory attitudes in the World Peace Council and its East German counterpart t…
Communism, Protests, Social Movements (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Communism (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Arms control (2 works)