"So far there has been a dearth of studies on the economic history
of the GDR, unlike the recent surge of general historical accounts.
Based on an exceptional knowledge of the literature and well
supported by a number of key, so far unpublished, documents, this
book fills the gap. Andre Steiner fully succeeds in his attempt,
managing to produce from highly complex material a very accessible
text for a wide readership without sacrificing analytical quality."
. H-Soz-u-Kult
The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of
Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the
Cold War waged by East and West, and of the resultant partition of
Germany. As the author argues, the GDR's 'new' society was
deliberately conceived as a counter-model to the liberal and
marketregulated system. Although the hopes connected with this
alternative system turned out to be misplaced and the planned
economy may be thoroughly discredited today, it is important to
understand the context in which it developed and failed. This
study, a bestseller in its German version, offers an in-depth
exploration of the GDR economy's starting conditions and the
obstacles to growth it confronted during the consolidation phase.
These factors, however, were not decisive in the GDR's lack of
growth compared to that of the Federal Republic. As this study
convincingly shows, it was the economic model that led to
failure.
Andre Steiner is the Research Director of the Department of
Economic and Social History at the Center for Contemporary History
Potsdam (ZZF) and Professor of economic and social history at the
University of Potsdam. He has been a Research Fellow at Institutes
for Economic History in Berlin and Mannheim and was Professor at
the Ruhr University Bochum. His publications include Die
DDR-Wirtschaftsreform der sechziger Jahre: Konfl ikt zwischen Effi
zienz- und Machtkalkul (Berlin, 1999); Von Plan zu Plan: Eine
Wirtschaftsgeschichte der DDR (Munich, 2004); and Preispolitik und
Lebensstandard: Nationalsozialismus, DDR und Bundesrepublik im
Vergleich (editor, Cologne, 2006).
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