The role of the masses in the collapse of the GDR
By: Jonathan Grix.
Series: New perspectives in German studies
Publisher: Macmillan Press; St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Protest movements -- Germany (East); Demonstrations -- Germany (East); Germany (East) -- Politics and government -- 1989-1990.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the Collapse of the GDR; the Role of the Masses 1 Part I 1 Approaches to the GDR's Collapse; title: Competing approaches 9; title: A complementary 'bottom-up' approach 18; title: The original Hirschman model 18; title: Use of the Hirschman paradigm by other researchers 21; title: The longevity of the regime and the concept of conditional; title: loyalty 22; title: The niche society, Sozialvertrag and enforced Anpassung 23 2 Exit and Voice in Historical Context; title: Introduction 27; title: Exit in its historical context 28; title: Voice in its historical context 33; title: The antagonism between exit and voice 39 Part II 3 Schwerin: A Case Study of the Collapse of the GDR; title: Introduction 45; title: Schwerin 46; title: Voice in Schwerin up to autumn 1989 47; title: The deterioration of the economy 48; title: Public reactions to the ban of Sputnik and its long-term; title: consequences for the GDR 57; title: Growing voice in the form of Eingaben, readers' letters and; title: non-voting 62; title: The role of the Church as facilitator of voice in Schwerin 68; title: 4 Exit in Schwerin; title: Introduction 72; title: Analysis of Schwerin city exit contingent, 1985-89 72; title: Exit turns to voice: the significance of the Rosa; title: Luxemburg-Karl Liebknecht demonstration, 17 January 1988 78; title: The relevance of the Cathedral for exit 86; title: The SED anti-exit campaign and citizens' responses to it 88 5 The Wende in Schwerin; title: Introduction 99; title: The impulse for New Forum in Schwerin 99; title: Embryonic mass voice on 2 October 100; title: Escalation of voice in Schwerin: 6 of October in; title: the Paulskirche 104; title: Reactions to Schwerin's first mass voice and its; title: consequences for the Bezirk leadership 115; title: The relationship between the Church, dissident grass-; title: roots groups and the masses 121 Part III 6 Conclusions; title: Introduction 127; title: Moving towards a conjunction of forces 128; title: The breakdown of conditional loyalty and the conjunction; title: of exit and voice 131; title: Regional specificity in the collapse of the GDR 133; title: Discovering patterns 146; title: The interplay between external and internal factors behind; title: the GDR's demise 153; title: Conclusion 155 Appendixes: Chronology of Schwerin's Wende in 1989 158 Map of Schwerin Bezirk 159.