Article ID: CBB668031268

Illusions of care: Iraqi students between the Ba’thist State and the Stasi in socialist East Germany, 1958–89 (2018)

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For four decades, Iraqi students came to the German Democratic Republic for education, political refuge, or to burnish their credentials. In 1969, Iraq opened diplomatic relations with the GDR, simultaneously extending its persecution of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) into East Germany by means of a complex bureaucratic apparatus of diplomatic organs, security services and student organisations. While ICP members were eventually protected by the Stasi, this entangled them in a system that offered care at the cost of obedience. The on-going campaign against ICP students ultimately played an outsized role in undermining the relationship between the SED and the Iraqi Ba’th.

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Authors & Contributors
Düppe, Till
Jersild, Austin
Kölbl-Ebert, Martina
Wildenberg, Thomas
Citino, Nathan J.
Kedar, Claudia
Journals
Cold War History
Air Power History
Business History Review
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Göttingen Vandenhoeck et Ruprecht
Concepts
Cold War
International relations
Political science
Science and politics
Communism
Geopolitics
People
Khruschchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
Hussein, Saddam
Pinochet, Augusto
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Places
East Germany
Soviet Union
United States
Germany
Middle and Near East
China
Institutions
Stasi [Ministerium für Staatssicherheit]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
World Bank
KGB
Bolshoi Ballet Company
Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau
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