ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the non-violent revolutions in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and Ceskoslovenska socialisticka republika (CSSR). It emphasizes both the thinking of the regimes and the oppositional movements in each country, as well as the developments and organization of the revolutionary movements. The chapter devotes more space to the CSSR than to the GDR, because the East German Round Table talks were not nearly as important as Czechoslovak ones. It shows that the regimes might have been able to repress the revolutions Chinese style. The chapter examines the East German "exit revolution", before considering the Czechoslovak "velvet revolution". It discusses the existence of small groups of intellectual activists in the GDR. The chapter also discusses the looming economic crisis in the GDR. It examines the behavior of the hardline regime and the Adamec camp.
