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GERMAN REUNIFICATION INITIATIVE. INTERNATIONAL RECEPTION OF KOHL'S PLAN (28.11.- 7.12.1989) (Niemiecka inicjatywa zjednoczeniowa. Miedzynarodowa recepcja Planu Kohla (28.11.- 7.12.1989))

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Sawczuk J.

Przegląd Zachodni

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2010

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issue 2(335)

17-36

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The author analyzes the response of two superpowers to the unexpected German initiative. He characterizes certain features of the Soviet and American approaches, their background, reactions to the hasty decisions and violently manifested craving for reunification, especially visible on the East German street which plunged into a revolutionary crisis. Kohl's conception was received with reserve by the allies and fierce opposition from the Kremlin, which saw the chancellor's initiative as 'artificial acceleration' and 'complication of a most significant turning point' in the developing dialogue between the European states. Also American reactions signaled anxiety that German alacrity would weaken Gorbachev's position, undermine the process of reconstruction and impair the cohesion of the Western Bloc.

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IN SEARCH OF A NEW SELF-IDENTIFICATION. ON THE BASIS OF AN ANALYSIS OF GERMAN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE AFTER THE BREAKTHROUGH (Poszukiwanie nowego samookreslenia. Na podstawie analizy autobiograficznej literatury niemieckiej po przelomie)

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Kardach M.

Przegląd Zachodni

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2010

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issue 2(335)

45-54

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Despite a twenty-year span since the historical and political breakthrough of 1989/1990 which led to a reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, reception of the new socio-political situation invariably belongs to the most frequently recurring themes in post-reunification German literature. The article brings a compact analysis of the process of transformation in the sphere of identity and mentality in the society of a united Germany, based on an examination of the mirroring of those phenomena in German autobiographical literature after the 'breakthrough'. The question whether the processes and developments connected with the reunification of the two German states are depicted in the newest German literature is often asked in numerous public debates. From the perspective of literary studies it is interesting to investigate not merely the fact whether the newest German literature mirrors those events, but also the mode of their exploration in aesthetic and literary reflection.

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CIVIL MOVEMENTS IN EAST GERMANY IN 1989 (Ruchy obywatelskie w Niemczech Wschodnich w 1989 roku)

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Smolarkiewicz I.

Przegląd Zachodni

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2010

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issue 2(335)

188-203

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In the 1989 breakthrough in East Germany, the GDR opposition emerged distinctly on the public scene (the first opposition movement, Initiative fur Menschenrechte, was created already in 1985). The author focuses entirely on 1989 as the last year of the GDR's existence. The activity of civil groups had been gaining momentum since the beginning of the 1980s, their members eventually becoming more confident in their pursuits. The major civil movements were: IFM, Neues Forum, Demokratie Jetzt. The appearance of new civil movements and parties in the GDR that could be labeled opposition was accompanied by a growing wave of migration to the FRG. Following the reunification of Germany, which meant the dissolution of the GDR, civil movements lost their raison d'etre, as they had been created with the aim of reforming the East German state. In the new circumstances there was no room for opposition against the ongoing transformations, although for the citizens of the GDR they proceeded too violently. The top-down process of transformation eliminated those thinking differently. It is a characteristic feature of the transformations in Germany that individuals who represent a different stance from the prevailing majority, are eliminated from the discourse.

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3 Przegląd Zachodni

3 2010

1 Kardach M.

1 Sawczuk J.

1 Smolarkiewicz I.

GERMAN REUNIFICATION INITIATIVE. INTERNATIONAL RECEPTION OF KOHL'S PLAN (28.11.- 7.12.1989) (Niemiecka inicjatywa zjednoczeniowa. Miedzynarodowa recepcja Planu Kohla (28.11.- 7.12.1989))

IN SEARCH OF A NEW SELF-IDENTIFICATION. ON THE BASIS OF AN ANALYSIS OF GERMAN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE AFTER THE BREAKTHROUGH (Poszukiwanie nowego samookreslenia. Na podstawie analizy autobiograficznej literatury niemieckiej po przelomie)

CIVIL MOVEMENTS IN EAST GERMANY IN 1989 (Ruchy obywatelskie w Niemczech Wschodnich w 1989 roku)