This book shows how Soviet reformers, believing East Germany could be transformed into a legitimate and viable Socialist state, took steps that led instead to its collapse.
Jeffrey Gedmin is a research associate at AEI.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Perestroika, Eastern Europe, and the German Question
From a New World View to a New Europe
East Germany and the Dilemma of Legitimacy
Prelude to Upheaval
Revolution
Aftermath of an Inadvertent Revolution
Notes
List of Names and Terms
Index
About the Author
