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    “A very orderly retreat”: Democratic transition in East Germany, 1989-90

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    East Germany's 1989-90 democratisation is among the best known of East European transitions, but does not lend itself to comparative analysis, due to the singular way in which political reform and democratic consolidation were subsumed by Germany's unification process. Yet aspects of East Germany's democratisation have proved amenable to comparative approaches. This article reviews the comparative literature that refers to East Germany, and finds a schism between those who designate East Germany's transition “regime collapse” and others who contend that it exemplifies “transition through extrication”. It inquires into the merits of each position and finds in favour of the latter. Drawing on primary and secondary literature, as well as archival and interview sources, it portrays a communist elite that was, to a large extent, prepared to adapt to changing circumstances and capable of learning from “reference states” such as Poland. Although East Germany was the Soviet state in which the positions of existing elites were most threatened by democratic transition, here too a surprising number succeeded in maintaining their position while filing across the bridge to market society. A concluding section outlines the alchemy through which their bureaucratic power was transmuted into property and influence in the “new Germany”

    Gewerkschaftspolitik unter dem Primat der Industriepolitik: das Beispiel der IG Chemie, Papier, Keramik

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    Die Aufloesung des FDGB und die Auseinandersetzung um sein Vermoegen

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    Vor dem Bankrott der DDR: Dokumente des Politbueros des ZK der SED aus dem Jahre 1988 zum Scheitern der Einheit von Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik, (Die Schuerer/Mittag-Kontroverse) ; mit einem Gespraech mit Gerhard Schuerer

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    Europaeische Integration und gewerkschaftlicher Einfluss: Aussichten einer Chemiepartnerschaft unter den Bedingungen transnationaler Industriepolitik in der Europaeischen Gemeinschaft

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    Struktur, Entwicklung und Probleme der chemischen Industrie in der DDR: ein Rueckblick

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    Toleranz und Haerte die Entstehungsgeschichte des DGB-Grundsatzprogramms 1981

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    FES Bonn(Bo133)-C82-1175 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman
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