TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boel,Bent
TI  - Social Democratic Transnationalism and Soviet Bloc Dissidents During the Cold War
PY  - 2011///.
							
N1  - 51
N2  - Dissidence in Soviet-bloc countries posed Western Social-democratic parties with a dilemma: how to demonstrate their solidarity with those living behind the Iron Curtain while maintaining their commitment to a policy of Détente? Some observers have highlighted social-democratic indifference; others have argued that a dual strategy was at work, the leadership focusing on relations with governments while lower levels provided support for the dissidents. A ‘realist’ approach to international relations certainly induced most social democrats to prioritize relations with governments, but some circles - including top officials - concretely assisted Eastern European oppositionists, whether exiled in the West or still active in Poland, Czechoslovakia or the German Democratic Republic
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-vingtieme-siecle-revue-d-histoire-2011-1-page-169?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -