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  • East Germany in Comparative Perspectiveby David Childs; Thomas A. Baylis; Erwin L. Collier; Marilyn Rueschemeyer

    Routledge 1989; US$ 160.00

    This book assesses the current position of the GDR in key political, economic and social areas. It looks at the political leadership, the military and at important social groupings such as the Church. more...

  • Role of the Masses in the Collapse of the GDRby Jonathan Grix; Prof Michael Butler; William E. Paterson

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 130.00

    This book examines the role of the masses in the collapse of the East German regime and state in 1989 in the northern district of Schwerin. It shows the extent to which citizens of the GDR dictatorship were instrumental in their state's demise. The 'bottom-up' approach employed, in contrast to the study of power wielding elites and 'opposition', explores the shift in mood and behaviour of citizens which brought about the internal collapse of the state. more...

  • Popular Protest in East Germanyby Gareth Dale

    Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 39.95

    "Popular Protest in the East German Revolution"is a study of dissent and protest in the German Democratic Republic, focusing on the upheaval of 1989-1990. more...

  • AntiFascism and Memory in East Germanyby Josie McLellan

    Clarendon Press 2004; US$ 215.00

    AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany sheds new light on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, the way in which societies remember, and the nature of state socialism. It combines cultural, social, and political history to examine the ways in which the legacy of the International Brigades was commemorated in the German Democratic Republic. - ;AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany is a book about remembering and about forgetting, about war, and about the peace which eventually followed. In the unlikely setting of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Spanish Civil War became the subject of a debate which both predated and outlasted the Cold War, involving historians, veterans, politicains, censors, artists, writers, and Church activists.... more...

  • Dealing with the Devilby M. E. Sarotte

    The University of North Carolina Press 2001; US$ 65.00

    Going behind the scenes of Cold War Germany during the era of detente, this text studies how East and West tried negotiation instead of confrontation to settle their differences. It reveals how the relationship between centre and periphery functioned in the Cold War Soviet empire. more...

  • Oppression and Scarcityby PETER SPERLICH

    ABC-CLIO 2006; US$ 210.00

    Imagine being forced to adopt an ideology that strips you of your political rights and plunges you into a life of despair and unending shortages. After the Second World War, the people of East Germany endured just such an appalling fate when socialism was forced upon them. Examining the effects of an oppressive and economically incompetent system, Sperlich presents a systematic review of post-war German history, with an emphasis on the founding of a communist state on German soil: the German Democratic Republic. He traces the imposition of communist rule, discussing the suppression of free elections and opposition to the infliction of a dictatorial one-party regime. Sperlich demonstrates how East Germans suffered under the restraints of socialism,... more...

  • From Confrontation to Cooperationby FREDERICK ZILIAN

    ABC-CLIO 1999; US$ 150.00

    At midnight on October 2, 1990, the West German armed forces took over the approximately 90,000 men comprising the National People's (East German) Army (NVA) and assumed control of its substantial arsenal. This study is an analysis of that unification from its beginning in July 1990 to the end of summer of 1993 when all applications for future service of former NVA officers and non-commissioned officers had been processed. Using numerous un-published sources and interviews, the author addresses the following areas: the organization used by the Bundeswehr and the political control exerted in the Takeover, the key decisions reached and the explanation of these decisions, the relationship of the Takeover to the new Army Structure 5 being implemented... more...

  • The Fileby Timothy Garton Ash

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 11.99

    "Eloquent, aware and scrupulous . . . a rich and instructive examination of the Cold War past." --The New York Times In 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later Timothy Garton Ash--who was by then famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central Europe--returned. This time he had come to look at a file that bore the code-name "Romeo." The file had been compiled by the Stasi, the East German secret police, with the assistance of dozens of informers. And it contained a meticulous record of Garton Ash's earlier life in Berlin. In this memoir, Garton Ash describes what it was like to rediscover... more...

  • Dissolutionby Charles S. Maier

    Princeton University Press 1999; US$ 42.00

    Against the backdrop of one of the great transformations of our century, the sudden and unexpected fall of communism as a ruling system, Charles Maier recounts the history and demise of East Germany. Dissolution is his poignant, analytically provocative account of the decline and fall of the late German Democratic Republic. This book explains the powerful causes for the disintegration of German communism as it constructs the complex history of the GDR. Maier looks at the turning points in East Germany's forty-year history and at the mix of coercion and consent by which the regime functioned. He analyzes the GDR as it evolved from the purges of the 1950s to the peace movements and emerging youth culture of the 1980s, and then turns his attention... more...

  • Representing East Germany since Unificationby Paul Cooke

    Berg Publishers 2005; US$ 109.95

    When the Berlin Wall came down and the two Germanies were reunited, culture was held up to be one of the keys to national unity. Ironically, however, this work argues that it is the realm of culture that, at times, has clearly demonstrated the divisions between East and West. more...