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The German Revolution of 1989 : causes and consequences

Title: The German Revolution of 1989 : causes and consequences / edited by Gert-Joachim Glaessner and Ian Wallace.
Publication: Oxford ; Providence : BERG, 1992.

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Description

xi, 232 pages; 23 cm

Summary

An investigation by a team of international scholars into the causes and consequences of the collapse of the German Democratic Republic. The study details the numerous indications that a unique combination of destabilising factors coincided to bring about the end of "real socialism."

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Political structures in transition / Gert-Joachim Glaessner -- The failure of 'real socialism' / Rolf Reissig -- From stagnation to transformation : the sociology of the 'GDR revolution' / Manfred Lötsch -- 'Perfecting' the imperfect : the GDR economy in the Honecker era / Mike Dennis -- Changes in political culture and the transformation of the GDR, 1989-1990 / Henry Krisch -- The failure of GDR cultural policy under Honecker / Ian Wallace -- The peace movement and the church in the Honecker years / John Sandford -- Revolution in a classless society / Sigrid Meuschel -- Gorbachev, the GDR and Germany / Martin McCauley -- The collapse of the GDR and the break-up of the 'socialist camp' / August Pradetto -- German unification and the West / Gert-Joachim Glaessner.

ISBN

0854967850
9780854967858

LCCN

91037778

OCLC

ocm24627315
24627315
SCSB-1965584

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library