Ulbricht and the Concrete "Rose": New Archival Evidence on the Dynamics of Soviet-East German Relations and the Berlin Crisis, 1958-61
About the Author
Hope M. Harrison
Professor of History and International Affairs, The George Washington University
Dr. Hope M. Harrison is Professor of History & International Affairs, George Washington University, and Co-Chair of the History and Public Policy Program Advisory Board. She is the author of After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present (2019) and Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961 (2003).
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