RETHINKING THE SECOND GERMAN DICTATORSHIP

It is one of the ironies of GDR history that its final chapter has been preserved in popular memory as theWendeor “course change.” Seeking to imply that the SED regime could be reformed and improved, Egon Krenz, the youngest member of a rather fossilized Politburo, coined this term to designate his...

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Published inDictatorship As Experience p. 363
Main Author Christoph Kleßmann
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Berghahn Books 15.10.1999
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition1
Subjects
Aerospace engineering
Applied sciences
Artificial satellites
Astronautics
Authoritarianism
Behavioral sciences
Bourgeois
Communism
Dictatorship
Engineering
European history
Fascism
Government
Human societies
Middle class
Nazism
Political change
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political processes
Political revolutions
Political science
Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship
Politics
Public administration
Public policy
Social classes
Social movements
Social policy
Social stratification
Social structures
Socialism
Sociology
Soviet satellites
Totalitarianism
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Summary:It is one of the ironies of GDR history that its final chapter has been preserved in popular memory as theWendeor “course change.” Seeking to imply that the SED regime could be reformed and improved, Egon Krenz, the youngest member of a rather fossilized Politburo, coined this term to designate his pragmatic reform-communism. That one of the newest representatives of the Old Guard could shape the consciousness of his former subjects so permanently needs some explanation, especially since the expressionWende, borrowed from the world of sailors and surfers, generally refers to a shift in direction, but not
ISBN:9781571811820
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