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      The Fall of the GDR

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      The Fall of the GDR

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      The Fall of the GDR book

      ByDavid Childs
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2001
      eBook Published 3 July 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315840512
      Pages 206
      eBook ISBN 9781315840512
      Subjects Humanities
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      Childs, D. (2001). The Fall of the GDR (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315840512

      ABSTRACT

      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.


      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|21 pages

      The 6DR in 1988 - a stable state?

      chapter 2|14 pages

      The GDR's flawed development

      chapter 3|15 pages

      The Stasi and the internal security of the GDR

      chapter 4|13 pages

      Coping with Gorbachev

      chapter 5|13 pages

      Gorbachev 1989: 'Life punishes those who come too late'

      chapter 6|5 pages

      The birth of the opposition parties 77

      chapter 7|10 pages

      The fifty days of Egon Krenz

      chapter 8|10 pages

      International reactions to events in the GDR

      chapter 9|15 pages

      Modrow's fight to save the GDR

      chapter 10|17 pages

      The free elections of March 1990

      chapter 11|26 pages

      German unity achieved

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