Conflict and stability in the German Democratic Republic /

Main Author: Port, Andrew I.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the puzzle of stability
  • 1. Creating a "new order"
  • 2. The GDR's "first strike"
  • 3. The revolution Manquée of June 1953
  • 4. The limits of repression
  • 5. Exit, voice, and apathy
  • 6. Power in the people's factories
  • 7. Economic struggles on the shop floor
  • 8. Divide and rule?
  • 9. "I comes before we" in the countryside
  • 10. "Whatever happened to the classless society?"
  • Conclusion : a divided society in a divided nation.