During the Cold War, Britain had an astonishing number of contacts and connections with one of the Soviet Bloc's most hard-line regimes: the German Democratic Republic. The left wing of the British Labour Party and the Trade Unions often had closer ties with communist East Germany than the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).
The first comprehensive study of Anglo-East German relations in a surprisingly under-researched field
Examines the complex motivations underlying different political groups’ engagement with the GDR, and offers new and interesting reflections on what this tells us about British political culture during the Cold War
Based on the authors' extensive knowledge of documentary sources
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