Uprising in East Germany, 1953
Subtitle: The Cold War, the German Question, and the First Major Upheaval Behind the Iron Curtain (National Security Archive Cold War Readers,)
Contributors: Christian F. Ostermann (Compiler); Malcolm Byrne (Other Contributor); Charles S. Maier (Preface)
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9789639241572
Subjects: Political activism; History - General History; Europe - Germany; East Germany, DDR; Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age
First sentence: The roots of the summer 1953 East German crisis date back to July 1952, when the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) adopted a crash socialization and collectivization program termed the "Planned Construction of Socialism."