End Game

The 1989 Revolution in East Germany

AvIlko-Sascha Kowalczuk

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Del 26 i serien Studies in German History

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The fall of the Berlin Wall, and the chain of events leading up to it, arguably constitute one of the most thoroughly documented episodes in recent history. Nonetheless, most accounts have focused predominantly on high-level politics and diplomacy along with the most dramatic and photogenic public displays. End Game, a rich, sweeping account of the autumn of 1989 as it was experienced “on the ground” in the German Democratic Republic, powerfully depicting the desolation and dysfunction that shaped everyday life for so many East Germans in the face of economic disruption and political impotence. Citizens’ frustration mounted until it bubbled over in the form of massive demonstrations and other forms of protest. Following the story up to the first free elections in March 1990, the volume combines abundant detail with sharp analysis and helps us to see this familiar historical moment through new eyes.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-12-09
Mått:152 x 229 x 37 mm
Vikt:910 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in German History
Antal sidor:532
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781800736214

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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk is a historian in the research department of the Stasi Records Authority, where he has been on leave since 2018. Currently, he is a researcher at the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture to write a biography on Walter Ulbricht. He is the author of many books, including Die Übernahme. Wie Ostdeutschland Teil der Bundesrepublik wurde (2019), "Fasse Dich kurz!” Der grenzüberschreitende Telefonverkehr der Opposition in den 1980er Jahren und das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (2014), and 17. Juni 1953 (2013), Stasi konkret. Überwachung und Repression in der DDR (2013),

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Praise for the German Edition:“This story is so far little known and not a big topic of the German public. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk closes our knowledge gaps in an impressive way” • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsPreface to the 2015 editionIntroductionPart 1: Images of a Social CrisisPrologueChapter 1. General ConditionsChapter 2. The GDR in Its International ContextChapter 3. Symptoms of CrisisChapter 4. Nuances: Regional Variations and SubculturesChapter 5. Countermovements: The Pull of the West and the ChurchesChapter 6. Opposition in the SED StateChapter 7. Germination Time: The Ossietzky AffairPart 2: From the Social Crisis to a Crisis of the DictatorshipChapter 8. The Social Crisis DeepensChapter 9. Regime Collapse and Historic DaysPart 3: The Fall of a DictatorshipChapter 10. From Demonstrations to the Fall of the WallChapter 11. The FalloutChapter 12. Forging a New Path: Elections and ReunificationConclusion: The Revolution. Or: Otto Schily as a SymbolAfterword for the 2021 edition: From the Revolution in the GDR in 1989 to Eastern Germany in the Twenty-first CenturySelect BibliographyIndex