How socialist East Germany's elite turned capitalist

How socialist East Germany's elite turned capitalist / Gerhard Schnehen.

"When East and West Germany re-united, the world was amazed - but this great moment should have been foreseen. East Germany, the GDR, was not transformed by a counterrevolution from the outside; the leadership was always capitalist at heart. The author shows how they were undermining the social...

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Main Author: Schnehen, Gerhard, 1949- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Algora Publishing, [2021]
Subjects:
Capitalism > Germany (East) > History.
Capitalism
Economic history
Economic policy
Germany (East) > Economic conditions.
Germany (East) > Economic policy.
Germany (East)
History
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Table of 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".

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