Title After the 'Socialist Spring' : Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR.

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New York : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource (288 pages).
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Series	Monographs in German history ; v. 26
	Monographs in German history ; v. 26.
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.
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.
Note	Print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-243) and index.
Subject	Collectivization of agriculture -- Germany (East) -- History.
	Agriculture and state -- Germany (East)
	Germany (East) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
	HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
	Agriculture and state. (OCoLC)fst00801722
	Collectivization of agriculture. (OCoLC)fst00867600
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	Germany (East) (OCoLC)fst01210274
	Collectivisatie.
	Landbouw.
	DDR.
	Kollektivierung.
	Bezirk Erfurt.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
	Geschichte 1952-1989
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Last, George. After the 'Socialist Spring' : Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR. New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., ©2009 9781845455521
ISBN	9781845459017 (electronic bk.)
	1845459016 (electronic bk.)

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