Michael Ploetz
Professor
history
The Institute for Contemporary History
Germany
Biography
scientific Assistant, The Institute for Contemporary History, Munich.
Research Interest
History of the cold war, military history, foreign relations of the GDR, history of communism
Publications
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How the Soviet Union lost the Cold War. From the retrofit to the Berlin Wall, Berlin: Propyläen 2000.
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Honecker's victory. The Marxist-Leninist strategy in the peace struggle of the early 1980s, in: German Archives, No. 6/1998, pp. 947-960.
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Erosion of deterrence? The crisis of the American military strategy on the eve of the NATO double decision, in: Second Cold War and Peace Movement. The NATO double decision in German-German and international perspective, eds. by Philipp Gassert, Tim Geiger, Hermann Wentker, Munich: Oldenburg Verlag 2011, pp. 31-48.
