The Politics Of Economic Decline In East Germany 1945 1989
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Author | : Jeffrey Kopstein |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0807862592 |
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Jeffrey Kopstein offers the first comprehensive study of East German economic policy over the course of the state's forty-year history. Analyzing both the making of economic policy at the national level and the implementation of specific policies on the shop floor, he provides new and essential background to the revolution of 1989. In particular, he shows how decisions made at critical junctures in East Germany's history led to a pattern of economic decline and worker dissatisfaction that contributed to eventual political collapse. East Germany was generally considered to have the most successful economy in the Eastern Bloc, but Kopstein explores what prevented the country's leaders from responding effectively to pressing economic problems. He depicts a regime caught between the demands of a disaffected working class whose support was crucial to continued political stability, an intractable bureaucracy, an intolerant but surprisingly weak Soviet patron state, and a harsh international economic climate. Rather than pushing for genuine economic change, the East German Communist Party retreated into what Kopstein calls a 'campaign economy' in which an endless series of production campaigns was used to squeeze greater output from an inherently inefficient economic system. Originally published in 1996. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author | : Jeffrey Kopstein |
Publisher | : Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 1991 |
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ISBN | : |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : André Steiner |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178238314X |
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The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and West, and of the resultant partition of Germany. As the author argues, the GDR’s ‘new’ society was deliberately conceived as a counter-model to the liberal and marketregulated system. Although the hopes connected with this alternative system turned out to be misplaced and the planned economy may be thoroughly discredited today, it is important to understand the context in which it developed and failed. This study, a bestseller in its German version, offers an in-depth exploration of the GDR economy’s starting conditions and the obstacles to growth it confronted during the consolidation phase. These factors, however, were not decisive in the GDR’s lack of growth compared to that of the Federal Republic. As this study convincingly shows, it was the economic model that led to failure.
Author | : Albrecht Ritschl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Steiner |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2010-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845458560 |
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"The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and West, and of the resultant partition of Germany." This study offers an in-depth exploration of the GDR economy's starting conditions and the obstacles to growth it confronted during the consolidation phase.--[book cover].
Author | : Hartmut Berghoff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2013-10-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107030137 |
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The contributors to this volume consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts.
Author | : Steven Pfaff |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2006-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822337652 |
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DIVA critical and comparative reexamination of the East German revolution of 1989 and its aftermath, suggesting which causal mechanisms account for the collapse of the East German state and German reunification./div
Author | : Gareth Dale |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Publishing |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
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This book is an exploration of the economic history of the German Democratic Republic, with an emphasis upon its confrontation by and contribution towards economic and military competition on the world stage. Beginning with an analysis of the Soviet bloc as a state-capitalist formation, the GDR's economic history is charted, with detailed examinations of the challenges to Soviet-style autarky that were posed by the globalising world market, as well as of GDR policymakers' attempts to use Western imports and credits as a 'whip' to spur growth. The book's central section consists of an exploration of the ambivalent attitudes of East German policymakers and industrialists towards their West German counterparts in the 1980s, as the whip was transformed into an ever-tightening noose of debt. Here, a prodigious range of secondary sources as well as hitherto unpublished documents from the archives of the old regime are drawn upon to document the means by which relative economic decline and dependency upon Western institutions came to constrain the options available to the East German nomenklatura. Finally, this study analyses the political economy of the 1989 revolution and unification and of post-unification Eastern Germany.
Author | : Hartmut Berghoff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2013-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108577768 |
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By many measures, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had the strongest economy in the Eastern bloc and was one of the most important industrial nations worldwide. Nonetheless, the economic history of the GDR has been primarily discussed as a failure when compared with the economic success of the Federal Republic and is often cited as one of the pre-eminent examples of central planning's deficiencies. This volume analyzes both the successes and failures of the East German economy. The contributors consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts. Rather than limit their perspective to the period of the GDR's existence, the essays additionally consider the decades before 1945 and the post-1990 era. Contributors also trace the present and future of the East German economy and suggest possible outcomes.