The Fall of the GDR
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The Fall of the GDR

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The Fall of the GDR

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
9781317883098
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
German History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of abbreviations
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Chapter 1 The GDR in 1988 – a stable state?
  11. Chapter 2 The GDR's flawed development
  12. Chapter 3 The Stasi and the internal security of the GDR
  13. Chapter 4 Coping with Gorbachev
  14. Chapter 5 Gorbachev 1989: ‘Life punishes those who come too late'
  15. Chapter 6 The birth of the opposition parties
  16. Chapter 7 The fifty days of Egon Krenz
  17. Chapter 8 International reactions to events in the GDR
  18. Chapter 9 Modrow's fight to save the GDR
  19. Chapter 10 The free elections of March 1990
  20. Chapter 11 German unity achieved
  21. Chronology
  22. Brief biographies
  23. Bibliography
  24. Map
  25. Index of names
  26. General Index