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Germany (East) --- Economic conditions.

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Communist regimes are defined by dictatorial power, state planning, and active propaganda machines. In The Campaign State, Gregory Witkowski explores the intersection of these three elements in East Germany by focusing on mass mobilizations. He dissects the anatomy of campaigns and argues that while mass mobilizations are often perceived as symbols of strength, they also indicate underlying systemic weaknesses. By focusing on the ability of regimes to mobilize individuals to transform society, he explains both the durability and the ultimate demise of the German Democratic Republic. This study seamlessly blends an analysis of top-down campaign initiatives with the influence of such mobilizations on the grassroots level. For more than thirty years, East German leaders doggedly extended such mobilization efforts, yet complete success remained elusive. Witkowski reveals how local leaders, campaign participants, and peasants acted in ways both compliant and noncompliant with party goals to create societal change. Campaigns became a ubiquitous part of life under communist rule. Witkowski shows that such mobilizations were initially an integral part of state-planning efforts and only later became ritualized, as party portrayals of goals and accomplishments diverged from East Germans' lived experience. He argues that incessant campaigns exposed a substantial gap between rhetoric and reality in the German Democratic Republic that undermined the regime's legitimacy. This valuable and original study will appeal to scholars and students of German history, Communism, and state planning.

Communism --- Germany (East) --- Politics and government.

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This work analyzes the evolution of the German Democratic Republic during 1971-1985, with particular attention to the economic sphere, relations with the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany, and the impact that changes in the international economic system have they had on these plans. The basic question concerns the actual degree of subordination of the GDR to the USSR: absolute for traditional historiography, which denies the possibility of an East German foreign policy, relative to the light of archival documents, which show a framework of bilateral relations constantly affected by tensions. In addition to analyzing the relationships in an unequal alliance between center and periphery, the study of the decision-making mechanisms internal to the GDR and the effectiveness of a system in which politics dictated the priority in terms of economic choices are at the center of this volume.

Germany (East) --- Soviet Union --- Foreign relations

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This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories.

Cold War --- Influence. --- Africa --- Germany (East) --- Relations

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Inhalt: Klaus-Dietmar Henke: Zur politischen Auswirkung kollektiver Schlüsselerfahrungen 1944/45 Adolf M. Birke: Die Siegermacht Großbritannien Dieter Marc Schneider: Französische Besatzungspolitik in Deutschland Helmut Altrichter: Ziele und Konzeptionen sowjetischer Deutschlandpolitik 1945/46 Rainer Kalsch/Burghard Ciesla: Wandlungen der sowjetischen Reparationspolitik und ihre Umsetzung 1945/46 Wolfgang Merker: Konstituierung und Ausrichtung der SBZ-Verwaltungsspitze durch die SMAD Natalja Timofejewa: Das deutsche humanistische Erbe und die Politik der SMAD Gerhard Besier: Kommunistische Religionspolitik und kirchlicher Neuanfang 1945/46 Horst Dähn: Grundzüge der Kirchenpolitik der SMAD und KPD/SED Günter Braun: Konturen, Probleme und Perspektiven der Arbeiterbewegung in der SBZ Hermann Wentker: Die Anfänge der bürgerlichen Parteien unter den Bedingungen der sowjetischen Besatzung Jürgen Falter/Cornelia Weins: Die Wahlen in der Sowjetisch Besetzten Zone von 1946 Michael Schwartz: Soziale und politische Dimensionen des Vertriebenenproblems in der frühen SBZ Dierck Hoffmann: Kontinuität und Wandel beim Aufbau der ostdeutschen Sozialversicherung 1945-1947 Michael Buddrus: Anmerkungen zur Jugendpolitik in der KPD 1945/46 Kerstiun Thöns: Die Jugendfürsorge in der SBZ im Spannungsfeld kommunistischer Programmatik.

Germany (East) - history. --- Germany (East) -- Politics and government. --- Politics and government. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Germany --- Germany (East) --- Deutschland (Sowjetische Zone). --- HISTORY / General.