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After the 'socialist spring' : collectivisation and economic transformation in the GDR / George Last.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Last, George.
- , Knowledge Unlatched, Author.
- Series:
- Monographs in German history ; v. 26.
- Monographs in German history ; v. 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collectivization of agriculture--Germany (East)--History.
- Collectivization of agriculture.
- Agriculture and state--Germany (East).
- Agriculture and state.
- Germany (East)--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Germany (East).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- New York Oxford Berghahn Books, [2024]
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- George Last holds a BA from Oxford University and took his MA and Ph.D. at University College London, where he has also taught. He now works on value-for-money research for the National Audit Office. George Last holds a BA from Oxford University and took his MA and Ph.D. at University College London, where he has also taught. He now works on value-for-money research for the National Audit Office.
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-243) and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed November 14 2025)
- ISBN:
- 9786612627606
- 9781789201086
- 178920108X
- 9781282627604
- 1282627600
- 9781845459017
- 1845459016
- OCLC:
- 670411015
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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