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213

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Role of the Masses in the Collapse of the Gdr
2000, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
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The role of the masses in the collapse of the GDR
2000, Macmillan Press, St. Martin's Press
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the Collapse of the GDR; the Role of the Masses 1 Part I 1 Approaches to the GDR's Collapse
Competing approaches 9
A complementary 'bottom-up' approach 18
The original Hirschman model 18
Use of the Hirschman paradigm by other researchers 21
The longevity of the regime and the concept of conditional
loyalty 22
The niche society, Sozialvertrag and enforced Anpassung 23 2 Exit and Voice in Historical Context
Introduction 27
Exit in its historical context 28
Voice in its historical context 33
The antagonism between exit and voice 39 Part II 3 Schwerin: A Case Study of the Collapse of the GDR
Introduction 45
Schwerin 46
Voice in Schwerin up to autumn 1989 47
The deterioration of the economy 48
Public reactions to the ban of Sputnik and its long-term
consequences for the GDR 57
Growing voice in the form of Eingaben, readers' letters and
non-voting 62
The role of the Church as facilitator of voice in Schwerin 68
4 Exit in Schwerin
Introduction 72
Analysis of Schwerin city exit contingent, 1985-89 72
Exit turns to voice: the significance of the Rosa
Luxemburg-Karl Liebknecht demonstration, 17 January 1988 78
The relevance of the Cathedral for exit 86
The SED anti-exit campaign and citizens' responses to it 88 5 The Wende in Schwerin
Introduction 99
The impulse for New Forum in Schwerin 99
Embryonic mass voice on 2 October 100
Escalation of voice in Schwerin: 6 of October in
the Paulskirche 104
Reactions to Schwerin's first mass voice and its
consequences for the Bezirk leadership 115
The relationship between the Church, dissident grass-
roots groups and the masses 121 Part III 6 Conclusions
Introduction 127
Moving towards a conjunction of forces 128
The breakdown of conditional loyalty and the conjunction
of exit and voice 131
Regional specificity in the collapse of the GDR 133
Discovering patterns 146
The interplay between external and internal factors behind
the GDR's demise 153
Conclusion 155 Appendixes: Chronology of Schwerin's Wende in 1989 158 Map of Schwerin Bezirk 159.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-208) and index.

Published in
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
Series
New perspectives in German studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
943/.1760878
Library of Congress
DD289 .G74 2000, D900-D2027JN1-JN9692, DD289.G74 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 213 p. :
Number of pages
213

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Open Library
OL6793063M
ISBN 10
0333800982, 0312235666
LCCN
00059177
OCLC/WorldCat
44681764
Goodreads
3406313

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