The changing party elite in East Germany
By: [by] Peter C. Ludz.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Parteielite im Wandel
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9780262120531
Subjects: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands.
Description: This is the first in-depth analysis of social and political changes within the party structure of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the period 1954-1968 which have been largely misunderstood in the West. The book focuses on and provides detailed information about the Socialist Unity Party (SED), the dominant Communist organization in East Germany.

Ludz investigates the party's organization, the development of the social structure of its Central Committee, and party ideology. The text is documented by extensive tabulated material, 59 detailed tables in all, containing data concerning shifts and longevity tendencies of Central Committee personnel and on other high-ranking party functionaries.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [465]-493.
Abbreviated and rev. translation of Parteielite im Wandel, which was originally presented as the author's Habilitationsschrift, Freie Universität, Berlin, 1966.