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Published
Red Globe Press, November 2012
ISBN
9780230579378
Format
Softcover, 176 pages
Dimensions
21.6cm × 13.8cm

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A clear, concise and thought-provoking introduction to the history of East Germany which engages critically with key debates and advances new interpretations of the origins, development and demise of the GDR. Peter Grieder also offers an original conceptualization of the GDR as a totalitarian welfare state.

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