The Difficult Route to the Treaty of Moscow between the Soviet Union and the West Germany

Filitov, Alexey

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The Difficult Route to the Treaty of Moscow between the Soviet Union and the West Germany

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S207987840011931-3-1

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10.18254/S207987840011931-3

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Affiliation: Institute of World History RAS
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

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Volume 11 Issue 7 (93)

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The article explores the course of the Soviet-West German negotiations leading to the conclusion of the Moscow Treaty of August 12, 1970, which became a crucial milestone in the process of détente in Europe and paved the road to the dismantling of the cold war complexes. The author depicts the both sides’ initial positions and elucidates the main stages of the negotiating process (the meetings between the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrey Gromyko, and FRG ambassador, Helmut Allardt, in December 1969, three tours of the former’s talk with Willy Brandt’s personal emissary, State Secretary in Federal Chancellor’s Office, Egon Bahr in January, February- March and May, 1970 ). He explains how both sides succeeded in finding out — by the way of mutual concessions and compromises — the sometimes unconventional solutions which reflected the balance of interests between two states. Due attention is paid to the “GDR factor” in the normalization of the international situation on the European continent. The article is based primerily on the previously untapped files stored in the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation supplemented by the published documents on the FRG foreign relations, memoires’ evidence and the sources from the recent research works.

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The USSR, The FRG, The GDR, West Berlin, The Oder-Neisse line, The Treaty of Moscow (1970), detente, A. N. Kosygin, W. Brandt, A. A. Gromyko W. Scheel, V. M. Falin, E. Bahr

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GOST	Filitov A. The Difficult Route to the Treaty of Moscow between the Soviet Union and the West Germany // ISTORIYA. – 2020. – V. 11. – Issue 7 (93). URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840011931-3-1/. DOI: 10.18254/S207987840011931-3
MLA	Filitov, Alexey "The Difficult Route to the Treaty of Moscow between the Soviet Union and the West Germany." ISTORIYA. 11.7 (93) (2020). DOI: 10.18254/S207987840011931-3
APA	Filitov A. (2020). The Difficult Route to the Treaty of Moscow between the Soviet Union and the West Germany. ISTORIYA. vol. 11, no. 7 (93) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840011931-3

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