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The Fall of the GDR - Germany's Road to Unity (Hardcover)
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The Fall of the GDR - Germany's Road to Unity (Hardcover)
Series: Themes In Modern German History
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The book charts the dramatic months leading to one of the most
profound changes of the 20th century, the opening of the Berlin
Wall in 1989 and the restoration of German unity in 1990. The
author analyses the nature of Communist rule in the GDR over 40
years, its few strengths and its many weaknesses, and the myths
which grew up around it. This book places the GDR in its
international setting as the proud ally of the Soviet Union in the
Warsaw Pact. It examines the reactions abroad to the unfolding
revolution. The text is based on a wide variety of written sources
and many interviews with leading Communist figures, such as Krenz
and Modrow, and with their opponents and successors, and former
Stasi officers and the dissidents they tried to crush. It greatly
benefits from the author's decades of involvement with East
Germany, including personal friendships there, before 1989 and his
eye-witness accounts of many of the events during Die Wende. It
should be of interest not only to students of German politics,
contemporary history and the Cold War, but to all who are curious
about the momentous times through which we have lived.
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