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Stasi state or socialist paradise? : the German Democratic Republic and what became of it by John Green; Bruni de la Motte is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Much has been written about how awful the German Democratic Republic supposedly was: a people imprisoned by a wall and subjugated by an omnipresent Stasi security apparatus. Such descriptions are based largely on prejudice, ignorance and wilful animosity. This book is an attempt to provide a more balanced evaluation and to examine GDR-style socialism in terms of what we can learn from it. The authors, while not ignoring the real deficiencies of GDR society, emphasise the many aspects that were positive, and demonstrate that alternative ways of organising society are possible. This volume is an updated and much expanded edition of their booklet first published in 2009. The authors have added more detail on how the GDR came into being as a separate state, and about how society functioned and what values determined the every-day life of its citizens. There is also a whole new section on what happened in the aftermath of unification, particularly to the economy. While unification brought East Germans access to a more affluent society, freedom to travel throughout the world and the end to an over-centralised political system, it also brought with it unemployment, social breakdown and lo

Who reads Stasi state or socialist paradise? : the German Democratic Republic and what became of it?

Author

John Green; Bruni de la Motte

Publisher

Artery Publications

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780955822865

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.5 / 5 (119 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14