The Secret Police and the Revolution
Subtitle: The Fall of the German Democratic Republic
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: November 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780275973285
Subjects: European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Police & security services; History; History - General History; History: World; Germany; Europe - Germany; Government - Comparative; History / Europe / General; Germany (East); Intelligence service; Internal security; Ministerium fur Staatssicherh; Opposition (Political science); Politics and government
First sentence: In 1949, when the Western Occupation permitted the German Federal Republic (BRD) its basic independence, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin responded by permitting a measure of autonomy to his German Democratic Republic (DDR), so declared in October 1949.