The GDR is the most successful (in terms of living standards) socialist state but one of the least loved. Yet the GDR has formidable achievements to list, espec
This new book investigates communist rule in East Germany from the end of World War II to its rapid collapse after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using newly avai
For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of pow