Preface.............................................................ix Acknowledgments.....................................................xv Abbreviations and Transliteration.................................xvii One Comrades in Misfortune: The USSR and Germany, 1917-1970.........3 Two Prelude to Unification: Moscow and Bonn in the Detente Era.....18 Three Rethinking the German Question: Gorbachev and the Two Germanies, 1985-1988................................................41 Four Wir Sind Ein Volk: Germany Unites.............................74 Five United Germany and NATO: The Kremlin Decides.................109 Six Implementing Unification: Russia and Germany, 1992-1997.......151 Seven National Identity and Foreign Policy after Communism........185 Eight Russia and Germany in the New Europe........................204 Nine Russia and Germany in the Twenty-First Century...............233 Notes..............................................................247 Bibliography.......................................................281 Index..............................................................293