The German Revolution of 1989: Causes and Consequences

Abstract

Part 1 Political, social and economic change: political structures in transition the failure of real socialism from stagnation to transformation, the sociology of the perfecting the imperfect, the GDR economy in the Honecker era. Part 2 Aspects of political culture: changes in political culture and the transformation of the GDR, 1989-90 the failure of GDR cultural policy under Honecker the peace movement and the church in the Honecker years revolution in the classless society. Part 3 Germany and the outside world: Gorbachev, the GDR and Germany the collapse of the GDR and the break-up of the socialist camp German unification and the West.