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Record Nr.

UNINA9910321055303321

Autore

Last George

Titolo

After the 'socialist spring' [[electronic resource] ] : collectivisation and economic transformation in the GDR / / George Last

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009

ISBN

1-78920-108-X

1-282-62760-0

9786612627606

1-84545-901-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Monographs in German history ; ; v. 26

Disciplina

330.943/1087

330.9431087

Soggetti

Collectivization of agriculture - Germany (East) - History

Agriculture and state - Germany (East)

Germany (East) Economic conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-243) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page-After the 'Socialist Spring'; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Glossary of Terms; Introduction; Part I-Consolidation and Control: Collectivisation and Its Malcontents; Chapter 1-Steps Towards Full Collectivisation of Agriculture; Chapter 2-The Aftermath of Collectivisation; Chapter 3-Farming Behind the Wall; Part II-Communicating Reform: The Limits of Economic Transformation; Chapter 4-Steps Towards Reform; Chapter 5-Resistance, Compromise and 'Cooperation'; Chapter 6-Critical Transitions

Part III-Stable Instability: Economic Stagnation and the End of TransformationChapter 7-From Ulbright to Honecker; Chapter 8-Stabilisation and Stagnation; Chapter 9-Economic Crisis and Popular Dissatisfaction-The Road to 1989; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Historical analysis of the German Democratic Republic has tended to adopt a top-down model of the transmission of authority. However, developments were more complicated than the standard state/society dichotomy that has dominated the debate among GDR historians.



Drawing on a broad range of archival material from state and SED party sources as well as Stasi files and individual farm records along with some oral history interviews, this book provides a thorough investigation of the transformation of the rural sector from a range of perspectives. Focusing on the region of Bezirk Erfurt, the autho