After the 'Socialist Spring' - Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Monographs in German History
Release date:	March 2009
Authors:	George Last
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-84545-552-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	1-84545-552-5
Barcode:	9781845455521

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