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Socialist Reformers and the Collapse of the German Democratic Republic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Socialist Reformers and the Collapse of the German Democratic Republic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Socialist Reformers and the Collapse of the German Democratic
Republic explores a neglected aspect of the collapse of Communism
in the former East Germany. It focuses on the East Germans'
enthusiastic support for re-unification and the transfer of West
Germany's political and economic institutions to the East, ignoring
those in the German Democratic Republic who wanted to 'reform'
socialism within, not destroy it. Their aim was to preserve an
independent German Democratic Republic that would pursue an
alternative 'third way' between Western capitalism and Stalinist
repression. Their vision was a 'better, more beautiful' socialism
instead of the 'push and shove society' that they associated with
Western capitalism. In their view the 'better, more beautiful'
socialism would combine the Western ideals of individual freedom
with Marxist concept of collective decision-making and shared
wealth. The reformers failed, of course, but their ideas and
activities in the fall of 1989 are an essential part of the story
that led to present-day Germany.
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