End Game : : The 1989 Revolution in East Germany / / Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Kowalczuk, Ilko-Sascha,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in German History ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (532 p.)

The fall of the Berlin Wall, and the chain of events leading up to it, arguably constitute one of the most thoroughly documented episodes in recent history. Nonetheless, most accounts have focused predominantly on high-level politics and diplomacy along with the most dramatic and photogenic public displays. End Game, a rich, sweeping account of the autumn of 1989 as it was experienced “on the ground” in the German Democratic Republic, powerfully depicting the desolation and dysfunction that shaped everyday life for so many East Germans in the face of economic disruption and political impotence. Citizens’ frustration mounted until it bubbled over in the form of massive demonstrations and other forms of protest. Following the story up to the first free elections in March 1990, the volume combines abundant detail with sharp analysis and helps us to see this familiar historical moment through new eyes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE 2015 EDITION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part 1 IMAGES OF A SOCIAL CRISIS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 GENERAL CONDITIONS -- Chapter 2 THE GDR IN ITS INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT -- Chapter 3 SYMPTOMS OF CRISIS -- Chapter 4 NUANCES Regional Variations and Subcultures -- Chapter 5 COUNTERMOVEMENTS The Pull of the West and the Churches -- Chapter 6 OPPOSITION IN THE SED STATE -- Chapter 7 GERMINATION TIME The Ossietzky Affair -- Part 2 FROM THE SOCIAL CRISIS TO A CRISIS OF THE DICTATORSHIP -- Chapter 8 THE SOCIAL CRISIS DEEPENS -- Chapter 9 REGIME COLLAPSE AND HISTORIC DAYS -- Part 3 THE FALL OF A DICTATORSHIP -- Chapter 10 FROM DEMONSTRATIONS TO THE FALL OF THE WALL -- Chapter 11 THE FALLOUT -- Chapter 12 FORGING A NEW PATH Elections and Reunification -- CONCLUSION Th e Revolution: Or Otto Schily as a Symbol -- AFTERWORD TO THE 2022 EDITION From the Revolution in the GDR in 1989 to Eastern Germany in the Twenty-First Century -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX