Winner of the 1991 Marshall Shulman Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies The 1990s promise a new era for Europe and for East-West relations, as the two German states, which epitomized the continent's postwar division, move rapidly toward reunification. In this authoritative account of Soviet-German relations during the critical decades leading up to this revolutionary development, Michael J. Sodaro provides a comparative analysis of Soviet and East German foreign policy toward West Germany of unparalleled scope and originality.