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Tables of Contents for The Fall of the Gdr
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of abbreviations
ix
 
Preface
xi
 
Acknowledgements
xvi
 
The GDR in 1988 --- a stable state?
1
21
Geriatrics lead the SED
1
1
Who were the `prisoners' of Wandlitz?
2
6
Lenin: `not deceived by . . . slogans like freedom'
8
1
The Politburo
9
2
Democratic Centralism
11
1
The SED's leading role
12
2
The 1986 XI Congress of the SED
14
2
Allies of the SED
16
1
Reagan (1987): `Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!'
17
1
Sputnik banned
18
4
The GDR's flawed development
22
14
A modern economy --- in 1945
22
1
Lack of raw materials
23
1
Ulbricht's unrealistic targets
23
2
Oil imports and defence burdens
25
2
West German help to the GDR
27
1
Intershop resentment
28
2
Poor housing
30
1
Lack of GDR identity?
30
2
The views of youth
32
4
The Stasi and the internal security of the GDR
36
15
From K--5 to MfS
36
1
The Stasi and the police
37
2
The Stasi, the SED and education
39
1
Literary informers
40
1
The cases of Fuchs, Havemann and Biermann
40
3
`Swords into ploughshares'
43
1
`Let us Leave!'
43
2
Mielke's Potemkin village
45
2
Mielke and Krenz
47
1
Isolation of `enemy negative persons'
48
3
Coping with Gorbachev
51
13
Gorbachev, `a sharp debater'
51
1
Moscow, Bonn and East Berlin
52
2
Perestroika and glasnost
54
2
Hungary changes course
56
2
Solidarity wins in Poland
58
1
In Prague a `velvet revolution'
59
1
Ceausescu goes in Romania
60
1
China resists democracy
61
3
Gorbachev 1989: `Life punishes those who come too late'
64
13
Gorbachev: 'blatant...electoral fraud'
66
1
Hungarians allow East Germans to go West
67
1
`Gorby, help us'
68
2
Honecker: `Don Quixote's futile charge'
70
1
`An unbridled campaign of agitation and slander'
71
1
The `miracle of Leipzig'
71
6
The birth of the opposition parties
77
5
New Forum
77
1
Democracy Now
77
1
Social democracy re-appears
78
1
Democratic Awakening
79
1
Other opposition parties
80
2
The fifty days of Egon Krenz
82
10
`Stony-faced' Honecker replaced by Krenz
82
1
1 November: Gorbachev's 'Judas kiss'
83
1
4 November: Alexanderplatz
84
1
8 November: The Politburo resigns
84
2
9 November: The Wall opened
86
6
International reactions to events in the GDR
92
10
Thatcher: `rather apprehensive'
92
1
Kohl's ten points
93
1
Poland: `The wheel of history will not be turned back'
94
1
Washington: `profoundly uneasy with the idea'
95
2
Mitterrand: `I am not afraid of German re-unification'
97
1
Gorbachev: `We had finally crossed the Rubicon'
98
4
Modrow's fight to save the GDR
102
15
Modrow's coalition government
102
2
Demonstrations continue
104
1
Round Table talks
105
1
Exit the SED, enter the SED---PDS
106
2
Public opinion tested
108
1
The Brandenburg Gate opened
109
2
The SED---PDS dissolving?
111
1
Modrow's 'government of national responsibility'
112
2
Gorbachev seals the GDR's fate
114
3
The free elections of March 1990
117
17
Gysi: `A strong opposition for the weak'
117
1
The Alliance for Germany formed
118
3
Kohl: `We will build a flourishing land together'
121
1
Brandt: `What belongs together will grow together'
122
2
Grass: `There can be no demand for... a unified nation'
124
1
Genscher pulls centre together
124
1
Bindnis 90 and other groups
125
1
Electoral law
126
2
Results: some surprises
128
6
German unity achieved
134
26
The grand coalition
134
1
Who were the Volkskammer members?
134
3
`We ask the Jews... for pardon'
137
1
Professors of Marxism-Leninism retired
138
1
Monetary, economic and social union
139
1
False dawn for the Western SPD
140
1
Goodbye Mark and Engels
140
3
Two Plus Four
143
2
The Oder-Neisse Line
145
2
`The terrible suffering inflicted on the Polish people'
147
1
`This rushed take-over by the Germans'
148
2
The grand coalition collapses
150
1
The GDR leaves the Warsaw Pact
151
2
The Volkskammer and the Bundestag vote for unity
153
1
`The war is finally over'
154
1
Further victories for Kohl
155
2
Switzerland and Sweden as models?
157
1
United Germany in 2000
157
3
Chronology
160
5
Brief biographies
165
6
Bibliography
171
8
Map
179
2
Index of names
181
4
General index
185