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CONTENTS ________ Acronyms and Abbreviations 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE PARTITIONING OF GERMANY AND ALLIED POLICIES A. THE DIVISION AND DISMEMBERMENT OF GERMANY 1. Allied Plans for Postwar Germany 2. Joint Military Government and Its Failure B. ALLIED POLICIES IN THE ZONES OF OCCUPATION 1. Interaction with Germans 2. Political Parties 3. Territorial Organization 4. Denazification and the Judiciary C. ALLIED POLICIES IN BERLIN 1. The Failure of Allied Joint Governance and the Blockade 2. The End of German Joint Governance and the Status of the Two Berlins D. FROM FOUR ZONES TO TWO STATES 1. The Founding of the FRG a. Limited Consolidation b. The Constitution and Government of the FRG 2. The Founding of the GDR a. Early Soviet Expectations and Policies b. Soviet Control of East German Parties and Politics c. People's Congresses and the First GDR Constitution d. The Organization of Government e. Formal Sovereignty f. Constitutional Revisions CHAPTER 3: BEGINNINGS AND GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURE A. THE IMPOSITION OF COMMUNIST RULE 1. The Socialist Unity Party a. The Three Communist Organizing Groups b. The Weimar Record c. Soviet Merger Policies: From Opposition to Command d. SPD Merger Policies: From Advocacy to Resistance e. The Merger and Its Aftermath 2. The National Front 3. Nonsecret, Compulsory, and Collective Voting iv B. THE STALINIST TRANSFORMATIONS 1. The Party of a "New Type" 2. The End of the "German Road" 3. The Party System: Monopoly and Subservience 4. Leninism-Stalinism in Party and State 5. Subordination of Party and State to Moscow C. THE GDR'S LACK OF HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL LEGITIMACY 4. POLITICS: PARTY, STATE, AND CITIZEN A. THE STRUCTURE OF SED RULE 1. Soviet Dominance 2. The Party Is Always Right 3. Party Organization 4. Party and State 5. Intra-Party Conflicts B. THE PARTICIPATORY SYSTEM 1. Lack of Legitimacy and Regime Insecurity 2. GDR Nationalism 3. The Pretense of Citizen Influence 4. The Mobilization Regime 5. Types of Participation 6. The Special Case of Adjudicatory Participation 7. Magnitude and Meaning of Participation C. THE STATE 1. The State that Did Not Wither Away 2. The State of All the People? 3. Civil Liberties and Information Flow 4. The Special Case of Antifascism D. THE POLICE STATE 1. Citizen Surveillance 2. The People's Police and "Voluntary" Submission 3. The Stasi 5. ECONOMICS: REFORMS, RIGIDITY, AND FAILURE A. THE PRINCIPAL QUESTIONS B. GDR FICTIONS AND WESTERN CREDULITY C. THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM 1. Early Economic Policies 2. Exploitation, Work Ethics, and Productivity 3. Workers and the GDR Labor Union 4. NES and ESS: The Failure of Early Reforms 5. Job and Other Securities 6. The Planned Economy D. REFORM IN COMMUNIST SYSTEMS 1. USSR and GDR Reform Policies 2. The New Economic System E. ASSESSMENTS 1. The Subsidized Economic System 2. The Failed Economic System v 6. PERSUASION AND NON-PERSUASION: PUBLIC OPINION AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE A. PUBLIC OPINION 1. General Conditions 2. Control and Manipulation 3. The Dishonest Style of GDR Communications 4. Involuntary Enthusiasm B. THE SPECIAL CASE OF LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 1. Topics, Targets, Attention, and Replies 2. The Up and Down Functions of the Fakes 3. Permissible Inferences 4. Predictive Values and the Berlin Wall 5. Party Control and Retribution C. PERSONALITY CULTS AND PUBLIC ADORATION 1. Adoring the Leaders: GDR 2. Stalin and Brezhnev: Soviet Examples 3. Mao Tsetung and Kim Il-song: The Cult in the Far East 4. The Fame Is Fleeting 5. Was the Adoration Genuine? 6. A Strange Aspect of Socialism? 7. Personalities and Correct Understanding 7. LIFE IN EAST GERMANY: SOME VIGNETTES A. LIFE AND LIES IN SOCIALISM 1. What Is Truth? 2. Security vs. Freedom B. CULTURAL LIFE 1. Education 2. Intellectuals 3. Censorship 4. Youth 5. Religion 6. The Jugendweihe 7. Swords to Plowshares 8. Sports 9. Self-Criticism and Other Indignities 10. The New Socialist Personality C. THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS WRONG 1. Restaurants 2. Shops 3. Bureaucracy 4. Dependent and Timid D. RESUME vi 8. THE END OF THE GDR: REVOLUTION AND REUNIFICATION A. INCARCERATION AND ESCAPE 1. Before the Wall 2. After the Wall 3. Tunnels, Boats, Balloons 4. Ausbürgerung B. THE BLOODLESS REVOLUTION 1. Expectations 2. The Third-Country Route 3. Demonstrations in the GDR C. REUNIFICATION AND THE END OF THE SOCIALIST EXPERIMENT D. AFTERMATH Bibliography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Germany (East) -- Politics and government.
Germany (East) -- Social conditions.
Germany (East) -- Economic conditions.
Socialism -- Germany (East) -- History.
Communism -- Germany (East) -- History.
Communist state.