176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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In 1945, German families with more than 100 hectares (247 acres) of land were forced from their homes in the eastern sector by the Soviets, now in control of that area. These families were brutally evicted from their property and had their land expropriated. In the next 45 years, the GDR government would come to control all of the agricultural land. At reunification in 1990, the earlier abuse of... Read more
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Chaos
1. The Disaster of the Peace
2. Revolution Without the Resistance
3. Completing Collectivization
Part II: Coping
4. Creating Homo sovieticus germania
5. A World Without The Wall
6. Roadblocks to Restitution
7. Are They One People?
8. This Land is Whose Land?
Part III. Epilogue
Elusive and Unfinished Reunification
Afterword
Appendix
Image Directory
Agreement Form
Interviews
Glossary
Biography
Joyce E. Bromley has been Visiting Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany.
