After the 'Socialist Spring'

Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR

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ID23528777
AuthorsGeorge Last
Year2009
Pages288
Publication date2009-03-15
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueAfter the "Socialist Spring" (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/j.ctt9qd4jg
OpenAlexW4241331384
Open LibraryOL31367965M
ISBN9781789201086
LanguageEN
Citations received3

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.

Physics · Political science · Spring (device) · Thermodynamics · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Engineering · History · Mechanical Engineering · 20th century · Agriculture and state · Anthropology · Collectivization of agriculture · Economic conditions · Economics · from c 1945 to c 2000 · Germany · Germany (East) · Postwar 20th century history · The Environment

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