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    non sort: The
    title: East German leadership and the division of Germany
    sub title: patriotism and propaganda 1945 - 1953
  name:
    name part: Spilker, Dirk
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
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      place term: xxk
    place:
      place term: XA-GB
    place:
      place term: XD-US
    place:
      place term: XE-NZ
    date issued: 2006
    edition: 1. publ.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
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    internet media type: application/pdf
    extent: XI, 296 S.- Reg. 23 cm
  abstract: Would it have been possible to build a unified and democratic Germany half a century before the fall of the Berlin Wall? This book reassesses this question by exploring Germany's division after the Second World War from the point of view of the SED, the communist-led and Soviet-sponsored ruling party of East Germany. Drawing on unpublished documents from the SED archives, Dr Spilker rejects claims that the East German comrades and their Soviet masters had abandoned their struggle for socialism and were willing to accept a democratic Germany in exchange for a pledge to neutrality. He argues that the communists' sudden switch to a multi-party approach at the end of the war was a tactical move inspired not by a desire for compromise but by the mistaken belief that they could win political hegemony - and the chance to introduce socialism throughout Germany - through the ballot box. Communist optimism, as this book shows, rested on specific assumptions about the situation after the war, all of which revolved around the prospect of political instability and social unrest in West Germany. The comrades in East Berlin did not just say that their regime would ultimately prevail, they genuinely believed it. Nor should their hopes be dismissed as a mere fantasy. In the aftermath of the war, the economic gap between the two Germanies was still relatively narrow and West Germany's future success as a magnet for the people in East Germany was by no means guaranteed.
  table of contents: Introductioni -- 'It should look democratic--' : the German communists and the birth of the SED -- Nationwide goals and zonal priorities : the KPD/SED and the German question from Potsdam to Bizonia -- Between hope and despair : the SED and the consolidation of the SBZ -- Unity postponed : the SED and the founding of the GDR -- Retreat and retrenchment : the SED and the German question in the early 1950s -- Conclusion.
  note: Dirk Spilker
  note: Literaturverz. S. [250] - 277
  note: Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet SLG XA-DE-BW BfZ pdager DE-24
  note: Archivierung prüfen 20240324 DE-4165 2 pdager
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Territorial questions
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 1945-1955
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1945-1991
  subject:
    geographic: Germany (East)
    topic: History
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  classification: 943.10874
  classification: 943
  classification: 8,1
  classification: NQ 7020
  classification: NQ 7000
  classification: NQ 6050
  classification: NQ 7010
  classification: NQ 5985
  classification: NQ 6560
  classification: 15.43
  classification: 15.38
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    record content source: DE-627
    record creation date: 060127
    record change date: 20240709140205.0
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