| Description |
1 online resource (404 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Models of Unification; PART ONE Background and Impetus; 1 The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the GDR: Evolution, Revolution, and Diffusion; 2 West German Policy Toward East Germany: A Motor of Unification?; PART TWO Process and Outcomes; 3 Delegitimation of the Old Regime: Reforming and Transforming Ideas in the Last Years of the GDR; 4 Steps Toward Union: The Collapse of the GDR and the Unification of Germany |
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5 Exiting the GDR: Political Movements and Parties Between Democratization and Westernization6 Parties and Problems of Governance During Unification; 7 An Unwelcome Enlargement? The European Community and German Unification; PART THREE Consequences and Problematics; 8 An Impossible Dream? Privatizing Collective Property in Eastern Germany; 9 Social Policy at a Crossroads; 10 Economic and Political Performance: Patterns and Prospects; 11 German Security Policy in Post-Yalta Europe; 12 Germany in Transition: The Challenge of Coping with Unification; Conclusion: Beyond Unification; APPENDIXES |
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Appendix 1: Chronology of German UnificationAppendix 2: A Ten-Point Program for Overcoming the Division of Germany and Europe; Appendix 3: Treaty on Establishing a Monetary, Economic, and Social Union; Appendix 4: Unification Treaty; Appendix 5: German Elections, 1949-1993; Select Bibliography; About the Editors and Contributors; About the Book; Index |
| Summary |
The East European revolutions of 1989 led to momentous changes throughout the region. Nowhere were they felt more dramatically than in Germany, where unification unexpectedly became reality, unfolding with breathtaking speed, unhindered by major obstacles |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429690723 |
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042969072X |
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