Peter Sperlich

Oppression and Scarcity

The History and Institutional Structure of the Marxist-Leninist Government of East Germany and Some Perspectives on Life in a Socialist System

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Produktbeschreibung

Imagine being forced to adopt an ideology that strips you of your political rights and plunges you into a life of despair and unending shortages. After the Second World War, the people of East Germany endured just such an appalling fate when socialism was forced upon them. Examining the effects of an oppressive and economically incompetent system, Sperlich presents a systematic review of post-war German history, with an emphasis on the founding of a communist state on German soil: the German Democratic Republic. He traces the imposition of communist rule, discussing the suppression of free elections and opposition to the infliction of a dictatorial one-party regime. Sperlich demonstrates how East Germans suffered under the restraints of socialism, and recounts the peaceful revolution of 1989, which led to the reunification of the two German states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9780275975654
• ISBN-10: 0275975657
• Artikelnr.: 21149082

Autorenporträt

Peter W. Sperlich is Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Rotten Foundations: The Conceptual Basis of the Marxist-Leninist Regimes of East Germany and Other Countries of the Soviet Bloc.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Partitioning of Germany and Allied Policies Beginnings and Governmental Structure Politics: Party
State
and Citizen Economics: Reforms
Rigidity
and Failure Persuasion and Non-Persuasion: Public Opinion and Public Discourse Life in East Germany: Some Vignettes The End of the GDR: Revolution and Reunification Bibliography Index