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Based on the literature of the GDR and supplemented with a number of so far unpublished documents
The most comprehensive account of the GDR economy available in English
An English translation of a bestselling German study
Table des matières
Introduction Chapter 1. A Difficult Start? Initial Conditions in the Soviet Occupation Zone Economic Potential and Structure at the End of the War
Plant Dismantling and Reparations
Political Forces in the Soviet Occupation Zone and their Ideas on Economic Policy
Land Reform and Nationalisation of Industry
Restarting Production
Chapter 2. The Establishment of the Planned Economy 1948-1952 German Economic Commission and Currency Reform
Problems of Economic Control
Reorientation of Foreign Trade and Industrial Development
Agriculture and Supplies for the Population
The Resolution to 'Build Socialism'
The Events of 17 June 1953
Chapter 3. Between Shortages and Growth 1953-1963 Industrial and Structural Policy
The Private Sector and Agriculture
Problems of the Steering Mechanism
Growth, Structural Transformation and Standard of Living
The 'Main Economic Task': 'Catch Up and Overtake'
Collectivisation and the Road into Crisis 1960/61
Chapter 4. The 'Golden' Sixties? Economic Reform between Take-off and Crisis 1961-1971 Störfreimachung and Produktionsaufgebot 1961/62
A 'New Economic System'?
Implementation of the Reform
'Overtake without Catching Up'
Economic Results and Living Standards in the Reform Period
The Growth Crisis of 1969/70 and its Political Consequences
Chapter 5. 'Unity of Economic and Social Policy' 1971-1982 Honecker's 'Main Task'
Fewer Investments and Innovations?
Concentration in Industry and Agriculture
And More Consumption?
Debt Crisis
Chapter 6. Continued Economic Decline 1982-1989 Getting out of Debt?
Dispensing with Reforms in the Steering of the Economy
Growing Loss of Assets
More Money, Fewer Goods
Final Crisis
Brief Biographies
Index
A propos de l'auteur
André Steiner is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) and Professor of economic and social history at the University of Potsdam. He has been the Research Director of the Department of Economic and Social History at the ZZF, a Research Fellow at Institutes for Economic History in Berlin and Mannheim and was Professor at the Ruhr-University Bochum.
