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How socialist East Germany's elite turned capitalist / Gerhard Schnehen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schnehen, Gerhard, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--Germany (East)--History.
- Capitalism.
- History.
- Germany (East)--Economic conditions.
- Germany (East).
- Economic conditions.
- Germany (East)--Economic policy.
- Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 247 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Publishing, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Part one. Before the 1963 'economic reform'
- The prevention of democratic change in East Germany after World War II
- The role of the soviet military administration in Germany (SMAD)
- The foundation of the GDR on October 7, 1949
- Stalin's diplomatic initiative in March/April
- "Accelerated construction of socialism"
- the second party conference of the socialist unity party
- The 17th of June, 1953
- The new character of the socialist unity party after the June events
- First steps towards the new economic system
- The events preceding the building of the Berlin Wall
- The building of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961
- "De-Stalinization"
- A former Nazi
- Ulbricht's first choice for the "economic reform"
- Final preparations
- Part two. The "new economic system of planning and leadership" (NÖSPL)
- Disregard for the law of central planning
- Profit as regulator of social production
- The realization of profit through the market
- Means of production becoming commodities
- The new banking and credit system
- The reform of industrial prices
- Self-financing
- Concentration and centralization of capital
- The new premium system
- The abolition of the state monopoly on foreign trade
- Influx of foreign capital
- The sector "commercial coordination" (KoKo)
- Debt policies
- A new capitalist class
- The GDR working class
- An exploited class
- The consciousness of the GDR working class
- The GDR state
- an instrument of the new ruling class
- Part three. The end of the Ulbricht era
- The plot to get rid of Walter Ulbricht
- The reasons for Ulbricht's removal: the economic crisis in the GDR in 1970
- The "Prague spring"
- The Polish rebellion
- Honecker's "main task".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 02, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Schnehen, Gerhard, 1949- How socialist East Germany's elite turned capitalist
- ISBN:
- 1628944455
- 9781628944457
- Publisher Number:
- 40030703546
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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