Communication and Compromise in the GDR
Subtitle: 1971-1989
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781403915689
Subjects: European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; History & Theory - General; Europe - Germany; History; Archaeology / Anthropology; Political Science; History: World; East Germany, DDR; Anthropology - Cultural; History : Europe - Germany; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science : History & Theory - General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Europe - General; Germany (East); Social conditions; Social groups
First sentence: The existence of the GDR for forty years in relative stability and its rapid collapse in 1989 pose a major problem for which neither historians nor sociologists nor politicians nor the media have yet found a convincing explanation.