Historical analysis of the German Democratic Republic has tended to
adopt a top-down model of the transmission of authority. However,
developments were more complicated than the standard state/society
dichotomy that has dominated the debate among GDR historians.
Drawing on a broad range of archival material from state and SED
party sources as well as Stasi files and individual farm records
along with some oral history interviews, this book provides a
thorough investigation of the transformation of the rural sector
from a range of perspectives. Focusing on the region of Bezirk
Erfurt, the author examines on the one hand how East Germans
responded to the end of private farming by resisting, manipulating
but also participating in the new system of rural organization.
However, he also shows how the regime sought via its
representatives to implement its aims with a combination of
compromise and material incentive as well as administrative
pressure and other more draconian measures. The reader thus gains
valuable insight into the processes by which the SED regime
attained stability in the 1970s and yet was increasingly vulnerable
to growing popular dissatisfaction and economic stagnation and
decline in the 1980s, leading to its eventual collapse.
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