This volume analyzes both the successes and failures of the East German economy. The contributors consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts, and trace the present and future of the East German economy, suggesting possible outcomes.
This volume analyzes both the successes and failures of the East German economy. The contributors consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts, and trace the present and future of the East German economy, suggesting possible outcomes.
Part I. Introduction: 1. From centrally planned economy to capitalist avant-garde? The creation, collapse, and transformation of a socialist economy Harmut Berghoff and Uta Balbier; 2. From the Soviet occupation zone to the new Eastern states: a survey André Steiner; Part II. Beginnings, Crises, and Reforms: The Planned Economy, 1945-71: 3. Winner takes all: the Soviet Union and the beginnings of central planning in Eastern Germany, 1945-9 Burghard Ciesla; 4. National socialist autarky projects and postwar industrial landscape Rainer Kalsch; 5. Innovation and ideology: Werner Hartmann and the failure of the East German electronics industry Dolores L. Augustine; 6. East German workers and the dark side of Eigensinn: divisive shop-floor practices and the failed revolution of June 17, 1953: the political and economic effects of shop-floor practices, 1945 Andrew I. Port; Part III. Living Beyond One's Means: The Long Decline, 1971-89: 7. From schadenfreude to going-out-of-business sale: East Germany and the oil crises of the 1970s Ray Stokes; 8. Innovation in a centrally planned economy: the case of the Filmfabrik Wolfen Silke Fengler; 9. Debt, cooperation, and collapse: East German foreign trade in the Hoenecker years Ralf Ahrens; 10. Ulbricht's and Hoenecker's Volksstaat? The common economic history of militarized regimes Jeffrey Kopstein; Part IV. Transformation, Subvention, and Renewal, 1989-2010: 11. The East German economy in the twenty-first century Michael C. Burda; 12. The social policy of unification and its consequences for the transformation of the economy in the new Eastern states Gerhard A. Ritter; 13. German economic unification: a view through the lens of the postwar recovery Holger C. Wolf.
Part I. Introduction: 1. From centrally planned economy to capitalist avant-garde? The creation, collapse, and transformation of a socialist economy Harmut Berghoff and Uta Balbier; 2. From the Soviet occupation zone to the new Eastern states: a survey André Steiner; Part II. Beginnings, Crises, and Reforms: The Planned Economy, 1945-71: 3. Winner takes all: the Soviet Union and the beginnings of central planning in Eastern Germany, 1945-9 Burghard Ciesla; 4. National socialist autarky projects and postwar industrial landscape Rainer Kalsch; 5. Innovation and ideology: Werner Hartmann and the failure of the East German electronics industry Dolores L. Augustine; 6. East German workers and the dark side of Eigensinn: divisive shop-floor practices and the failed revolution of June 17, 1953: the political and economic effects of shop-floor practices, 1945 Andrew I. Port; Part III. Living Beyond One's Means: The Long Decline, 1971-89: 7. From schadenfreude to going-out-of-business sale: East Germany and the oil crises of the 1970s Ray Stokes; 8. Innovation in a centrally planned economy: the case of the Filmfabrik Wolfen Silke Fengler; 9. Debt, cooperation, and collapse: East German foreign trade in the Hoenecker years Ralf Ahrens; 10. Ulbricht's and Hoenecker's Volksstaat? The common economic history of militarized regimes Jeffrey Kopstein; Part IV. Transformation, Subvention, and Renewal, 1989-2010: 11. The East German economy in the twenty-first century Michael C. Burda; 12. The social policy of unification and its consequences for the transformation of the economy in the new Eastern states Gerhard A. Ritter; 13. German economic unification: a view through the lens of the postwar recovery Holger C. Wolf.
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