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End Game


End Game

The 1989 Revolution in East Germany
Studies in German History, Band 26 1. Aufl.

von: Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk

CHF 49.00

Verlag: Berghahn Books
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 09.12.2022
ISBN/EAN: 9781800736221
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 532

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<p> 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. <em>End Game</em>, 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.</p>
<p> List of Abbreviations<br> Acknowledgments<br> Preface to the 2015 edition</p>
<p> <a><strong>Introduction</strong></a></p>
<p> <strong>Part 1: Images of a Social Crisis</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Prologue</strong><br> <strong>Chapter 1.</strong> General Conditions<br> <strong>Chapter 2.</strong> The GDR in Its International Context<br> <strong>Chapter 3.</strong> Symptoms of Crisis<br> <strong>Chapter 4.</strong> Nuances: Regional Variations and Subcultures<br> <strong>Chapter 5.</strong> Countermovements: The Pull of the West and the Churches<br> <strong>Chapter 6.</strong> Opposition in the SED State<br> <strong>Chapter 7.</strong> Germination Time: The Ossietzky Affair</p>
<p> <strong>Part 2: From the Social Crisis to a Crisis of the Dictatorship</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 8.</strong> The Social Crisis Deepens<br> <strong>Chapter 9.</strong> Regime Collapse and Historic Days</p>
<p> <strong>Part 3: The Fall of a Dictatorship</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 10.</strong> From Demonstrations to the Fall of the Wall<br> <strong>Chapter 11.</strong> The Fallout<br> <strong>Chapter 12.</strong> Forging a New Path: Elections and Reunification</p>
<p> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> The Revolution. Or: Otto Schily as a Symbol</p>
<p> <strong>Afterword for the 2021 edition:</strong> From the Revolution in the GDR in 1989 to Eastern Germany in the Twenty-first Century</p>
<p> Select Bibliography<br> Index</p>
<p> <strong>Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk</strong> 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 <em>Die Übernahme. Wie Ostdeutschland Teil der Bundesrepublik wurde</em> (2019), <em>"Fasse Dich kurz!” Der grenzüberschreitende Telefonverkehr der Opposition in den 1980er Jahren und das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit </em>(2014), and <em>17. Juni 1953</em> (2013), <em>Stasi konkret. Überwachung und Repression in der DDR</em> (2013),</p>

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