Winner of the Social Science History Association President's Book Award
East Germany was the first domino to fall when the Soviet bloc began to collapse in 1989. Its topple was so swift and unusual that it caught many area specialists and social scientists off guard; they failed to recognize the instability of the Communist regime, much less its fatal vulnerability to popular revolt. In this volume, Steven Pfaff identifies the central mechanisms that propelled the extraordinary and surprisingly bloodless revolution within the German Democratic Republic (GDR). By developing a theory of how...
Winner of the Social Science History Association President's Book Award
East Germany was the first domino to fall when the Soviet bloc began to coll...
A critical and comparative reexamination of the East German revolution of 1989 and its aftermath, suggesting which causal mechanisms account for the collapse of the East German state and German reunification.
A critical and comparative reexamination of the East German revolution of 1989 and its aftermath, suggesting which causal mechanisms account for the c...
