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  title info:
    title: Socialist reformers and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic
  name:
    name part: Orlow, Dietrich
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 84 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Socialist Reformers and the Collapse of the German Democratic Republic explores a neglected aspect of the collapse of communism in the former East Germany. It focuses on the East Germans' enthusiastic support for re-unification and the transfer of West Germany's political and economic institutions to the East, ignoring those in the German Democratic Republic who wanted to 'reform' socialism within, not destroy it. Their aim was to preserve an independent German Democratic Republic that would pursue an alternative 'third way' between Western capitalism and Stalinist repression. Their vision was a 'better, more beautiful' socialism instead of the 'push and shove society' that they associated with Western capitalism. In their view the 'better, more beautiful' socialism would combine the Western ideals of individual freedom with Marxist concept of collective decision-making and shared wealth. The reformers failed, of course, but their ideas and activities in the fall of 1989 are an essential part of the story that led to present-day Germany.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The SED Reformers -- 3. The HRO Reformers -- 4. The Illusions of the Hardliners -- 5. The First Group of SED Reformers Takes Charge -- 6. A New Group of SED Reformers Tries Its Luck -- 7. The Round Table : The HRO Reformers' Fifteen Minutes of Fame -- 8. Conclusion.
  note: Dietrich Orlow, Boston University, USA.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ge---
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    geographic: Germany (East)
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1989-1990
  subject:
    geographic: Germany (East)
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    geographic: Germany (East)
    topic: Social policy
  subject:
    topic: Social reformers
    geographic: Germany (East)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Socialism
    geographic: Germany (East)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Socialism
    geographic: Germany (East)
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
    geographic: Germany (East)
    topic: Societies, etc
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Germany
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Revolutionary
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
  classification: DD289 .O75 2015
  classification: 943/.10877
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150928
    record change date: 20151221122408.0
    record identifier: in00003609872