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Russian-German Special Relations in the Twentieth Century German Historical Perspectives Series General Editors: Timothy Garton Ash and Gerhard A. Ritter ISSN 0953-363X Volume VI Escape into War: The Foreign Policy of Imperial Germany Edited by Gregor Schöllgen Volume VII German Unification: The Unexpected Challenge Edited by Dieter Grosser Volume VIII Germany’s New Position in Europe: Problems and Perspectives Edited by Arnulf Baring Volume IX Western Europe and Germany: The Beginnings of European Integration 1945–1960 Edited by Clemens Wurm Volume X The Military in Politics and Society in France and Germany in the Twentieth Century Edited by Klaus-Jürgen Müller Volume XI Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1995 Edited by Reiner Pommerin Volume XII The Problem of Revolution in Germany, 1789–1989 Edited by Reinhard Rürup Volume XIII Science in the Third Reich Edited by Margit Szöllösi-Janze Volume XIV The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality Edited by Hans Mommsen Volume XV The Divided Past: Rewriting Post-war German History Edited by Christoph Kleßmann Volume XVI Towards an Urban Nation: Germany since 1780 Edited by Friedrich Lenger Volume XVII Germany and the European East in the Twentieth Century Edited by Eduard Mühle Volume XVIII Britain and Germany in the Twentieth Century Edited by Manfred Görtemaker German Historical Perspectives/XIX Russian-German Special Relations in the Twentieth Century A Closed Chapter? Edited by KARL SCHLÖGEL Oxford • New York First published in 2006 by Berg Editorial offices: First Floor, Angel Court, 81 St Clements Street, Oxford OX4 1AW, UK 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA © Karl Schlögel 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written permission of Berg. Berg is the imprint of Oxford International Publishers Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Russian-German special relations in the twentieth century : a closed chapter? / edited by Karl Schlögel. p. cm. -- (German historical perspectives, ISSN 0953-363X ; 19) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-84520-177-7 (hardback) ISBN-10: 1-84520-177-9 (hardback) 1. Germany--Foreign relations--Russia. 2. Russia--Foreign relations-- Germany. 3. Germany--Foreign relations--Soviet Union. 4. Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Germany. 5. Germany--Foreign relations--20th century. 6. Russia--Foreign relations--20th century. I. Schlögel, Karl. II. Series. DD120.R8R85 2006 327.4304709'04--dc22 2006012198 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-13 978 1 84520 177 7 (Cloth) ISBN-10 1 84520 177 9 (Cloth) Typeset by JS Typesetting Ltd, Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan Printed in the United Kingdom by Biddles Ltd, King’s Lynn www.bergpublishers.com Contents Editorial Preface Timothy Garton Ash and Gerhard A. Ritter vii Contributors ix ‘Special Relations’ between Russia and Germany in the Twentieth Century – A Closed Chapter? Karl Schlögel 1 Before the Great War: German Entrepreneurs in Russia – Russian Scholars in Germany. Two Types of Russian-German Relations in the Decades before the First World War Dittmar Dahlmann 11 Thomas Mann and Others: Russophilism and Sovietophilia Among German Conservatives Gerd Koenen 31 Berlin: ‘Stepmother’ Among Russian Cities Karl Schlögel 43 German Emigrants in Soviet Exile: A Drama in Five Acts Carola Tischler 77 The Strange Allies – Red Army and Reichswehr in the Inter-war Period Manfred Zeidler 99 Facing the Ostfront: The Other War in German Memory Peter Jahn 119 Patriots or Traitors? – The Soviet Government and the ‘German Russians’ After the Attack on the USSR by National Socialist Germany Viktor Krieger 133 vi Contents ‘Vot ona prokliataia Germaniia!’ Germany in Early 1945 Through the Eyes of Red Army Soldiers Elke Scherstjanoi 165 Supervision and Abdication – East German Intellectual Life under Soviet Tutelage Jens Reich 191 German-Russian Relations in the Early Twenty-first Century. Some Reflections on Normalcy Klaus Segbers 203 Index 217 Editorial Preface The purpose of this series of books is to present the results of research by German historians and social scientists to readers in English-speaking countries. Each of the volumes has a particular theme that will be handled from different points of view by specialists. The series is not limited to the problems of Germany but will also involve publications dealing with the history of other countries, with the general problems of political, economic, social and intellectual history as well as international relations and studies in comparative history. We hope the series will help to overcome the language barrier that experience has shown obstructs the rapid appreciation of German research in English-speaking countries. The publication of the series is closely associated with the German Visiting Fellowship at St Antony’s College, Oxford, which has existed since having been originally funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung, later by the British Leverhulme Trust, by the Ministry of Education and Science in the Federal Republic of Germany, and, starting in 1990, by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, with special funding since 2000 from the Marga and Kurt Möllgaard- Stiftung. Each volume is based on a series of seminars held in Oxford, which has been conceived and directed by the Visiting Fellow and organized in collaboration with the European Studies Centre at St Antony’s College. The editors wish to thank the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft for meeting the expenses of the original lecture series and for generous assistance with the publication. They hope that this enterprise will help to overcome national introspection and to further international academic discourse and cooperation. Timothy Garton Ash Gerhard A. Ritter vii This page intentionally left blank Contributors KARL SCHLÖGEL Historian and writer, professor of Eastern European Studies at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/ Oder. His main interests and fields of research are Russian cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, history of forced migrations in East and Central Europe, cities and urban culture. His many books include Moskau lesen (Berlin: Siedler, 1984) (English translation London: Reaction, 2005); Petersburg 1909–1921. Das Laboratorium der Moderne (Munich: Hanser, 2002); Berlin Ostbahnhof Europas (Berlin: Siedler, 1998) (Russian translation Moscow: NLO, 2005); Im Raume lesen wir die Zeit. Über Zivilisationsgeschiche und Geo- politik (Munich: Hanser, 2003). Among his honours and awards are Sigmund-Freud-Preis der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung 2004; Lessing-Preis der Stadt Hamburg 2005. DITTMAR DAHLMANN Professor of East European History at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn. He has published several articles on German entrepreneurs in pre-revolu- tionary Russia and is the author of Die Provinz wählt. Russlands Konstitutionell-Demokratische Partei und die Dumawahlen 1906–1912 (Cologne: Böhlau, 1996). His current research focuses on Siberia and the socio-cultural history of football in Russia. GERD KOENEN Writer and publicist in Frankfurt am Main. He has published a series of books, the most well known of which are Utopie der Säuberung. Was war der Kommunismus? (Berlin: Fest, 1998); and Das rote Jahrzehnt. Unsere kleine deutsche Kulturrevolution 1967–1977 (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2001). His most recent book is Der Russland-Komplex. Die Deutschen und der Osten 1900–1945 (Munich: Beck, 2005). CAROLA TISCHLER Teacher of history in Berlin. She has pub- lished a monograph Flucht in die Verfolgung: Deutsche Emigranten im sowjetischen Exil, 1933–1945 (Münster: Lit, 1996), as well as several articles on Germans exile in the Soviet Union. Her current research ix
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