TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schnehen,Gerhard
TI  - How socialist East Germany's elite turned capitalist /Gerhard Schnehen
SN  - 9781628944457
AV  - HC290 .H697 2021
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; Part one. Before the 1963 'economic reform' --; The prevention of democratic change in East Germany after World War II --; The role of the soviet military administration in Germany (SMAD) --; The foundation of the GDR on October 7, 1949 --; Stalin's diplomatic initiative in March/April --; "Accelerated construction of socialism" --; the second party conference of the socialist unity party --; The 17th of June, 1953 --; The new character of the socialist unity party after the June events --; First steps towards the new economic system --; The events preceding the building of the Berlin Wall --; The building of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 --; "De-Stalinization" --; A former Nazi --; Ulbricht's first choice for the "economic reform" --; Final preparations --; Part two. The "new economic system of planning and leadership" (NOSPL) --; Disregard for the law of central planning --; Profit as regulator of social production --; The realization of profit through the market --; Means of production becoming commodities --; The new banking and credit system --; The reform of industrial prices --; Self-financing --; Concentration and centralization of capital --; The new premium system --; The abolition of the state monopoly on foreign trade --; Influx of foreign capital --; The sector "commercial coordination" (KoKo) --; Debt policies --; A new capitalist class --; The GDR working class --; An exploited class --; The consciousness of the GDR working class --; The GDR state --; an instrument of the new ruling class --; Part three. The end of the Ulbricht era --; The plot to get rid of Walter Ulbricht --; The reasons for Ulbricht's removal: the economic crisis in the GDR in 1970 --; The "Prague spring" --; The Polish rebellion --; Honecker's "main task"; 2; b
N2  - "When East and West Germany re-united, the world was amazed - but this great moment should have been foreseen. East Germany, the GDR, was not transformed by a counterrevolution from the outside; the leadership was always capitalist at heart. The author shows how they were undermining the socialist foundations even in the 1950s, as soon as Stalin died"--
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