TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sperlich,Peter W.
TI  - 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
SN  - 0275975657
U1  - 943.1087  
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Westport, Conn.
PB  - Praeger Publishers
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - History
KW  - Communism
KW  - Communist state
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - 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
ER  -