Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR 1949-1989 by Mary Fulbrook

Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR 1949-1989

Mary Fulbrook

320 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced

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Founded on the ruins of Hitler's defeated Third Reich, and lacking any intrinsic legitimacy, the German Democratic Republic nevertheless became the most stable and successful state in the Soviet bloc. Yet in the "gentle revolution" of 1989 it coll...

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