206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 The GDR in 1988 – a stable state?; Chapter 2 The GDR’s flawed development; Chapter 3 The Stasi and the internal security of the GDR; Chapter 4 Coping with Gorbachev; Chapter 5 Gorbachev 1989: ‘Life punishes those who come too late’; Chapter 6 The birth of the opposition parties; Chapter 7 The fifty days of Egon Krenz; Chapter 8 International reactions to events in the GDR; Chapter 9 Modrow’s fight to save the GDR; Chapter 10 The free elections of March 1990; Chapter 11 German unity achieved;
Biography
David Childs is Professor of German Politics at the University of Nottingham.
"a well-written narrative history...should be read by anyone who is interested in the decline and fall of communism" Contemporary Review, vol. 281, no. 1638, July 2002
