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Oppression and scarcity: the history and institutional structure of the Marxist-Leninist government of East Germany and some perspectives on life in a socialist system/

Sperlich, Peter W.

Oppression and scarcity: the history and institutional structure of the Marxist-Leninist government of East Germany and some perspectives on life in a socialist system/ Peter W. Sperlich. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006. - xv, 302 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-290) and index.

1. Introduction. --
2. The Partitioning of Germany and Allied Policies. --
3. Beginnings and governmental structure. --
4 . Politics: party, state, and citizen. --
5. Economics: reforms, rigidity, and failure. --
6. Persuasion nd non-persuasion: public opion and public discourse. --
7 Life in East Germany: some vignettes. --
8. The end of the GDR: revolution and reunification. Bibliography. Index.

ISBN: 0275975657

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Socialism--History.--Germany (East)
Communism--History.--Germany (East)
Communist state.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Germany (East)--Politics and government.
Germany (East)--Social conditions.
Germany (East)--Economic conditions.

Dewey Class. No.: 943.1087 / SPE/O