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Jeffrey Kopstein offers the first comprehensive study of East German economic policy over the course of the states forty-year history. Analyzing both the making of economic policy at the national level and the implementation of specific policies on the shop floor, he provides new and essential background to the revolution of 1989. In particular, he shows how decisions made at critical junctures in East Germanys history led to a pattern of economic decline and worker dissatisfaction that contributed to eventual political collapse. East Germany was generally considered to have the most successful economy in the Eastern Bloc, but Kopstein explores what prevented the countrys leaders from responding effectively to pressing economic problems. He depicts a regime caught between the demands of a disaffected working class whose support was crucial to continued political stability, an intractable bureaucracy, an intolerant but surprisingly weak Soviet patron state, and a harsh international economic climate. Rather than pushing for genuine economic change, the East German Communist Party retreated into what Kopstein calls a campaign economy in which an endless series of production campaigns was used to squeeze greater output from an inherently inefficient economic system.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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title:The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989
author:Kopstein, Jeffrey.
publisher:University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin:0807823031
print isbn13:9780807823033
ebook isbn13:9780807862599
language:English
subjectGermany (East)--Economic policy, Germany (East)--Economic conditions.
publication date:1997
lcc:HC290.78.K66 1997eb
ddc:338.9431/00945
subject:Germany (East)--Economic policy, Germany (East)--Economic conditions.
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The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989
Jeffrey Kopstein
The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill and London
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1997 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kopstein, Jeffrey. The politics of economic decline in
East Germany, 1945-1989 / by Jeffrey Kopstein.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and
index. ISBN 0-8078-2303-1 (cloth :alk. paper)
1. Germany (East)Economic policy. 2. Germany
(East)Economic conditions1945-1990. I. Title.
HC290.78.K66 1997
96-11614
338.9431'00945dc20
CIP

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To my parents,
Joel and Marlene Kopstein
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
Part One. The View from the Top
15
1 Making Russians from Prussians: Labor and the State, 1945-1961
17
2 Reform Abandoned: The Elusive Search for Socialist Modernity, 1962-1970
41
3 Communism and Capital Markets
73
Part Two. The Campaign Economy
107
4 Reds and Experts: The Retreat from Technocracy
111
5 The Campaign Economy
131
6 The Party in the Factory: Labor Motivation in the Twilight of Communism
155
7 Local Politics: Housing and Consumer Goods
173
Conclusion
195
Notes
205
Index
239

Page ix
Tables and Figures
Tables
I-1. Capital Accumulation as Percentage of National Income in East Germany, 1970-1988
5
1-1. Daily Rations in Calories in East Germany, 1945-1949
20
3-1. GDR Trade with USSR, 1970-1977
84
3-2. GDR Trade with West Germany, 1961-1976
85
3-3. GDR Exports to Western Industrial States
100
4-1. SED Nomenklatura of Party, State, and Economy
119
6-1. Worker Absenteeism in East Germany and West Germany, 1980s
157
6-2. Monthly Average Gross and Net Wages in Industry, 1988
159
6-3. Skilled Labor on the Shop Floor in East Germany and West Germany
167
7-1. Condition of Apartments in East Germany and West Germany
182
7-2. GDR Housing Stock, 1950-1989
183
7-3. Comparative East and West German Consumption, 1970
187
7-4. Yearly Increase in Savings and Cash Holdings in Relation to Personal Income
193
C-1. Per Capita Income of East European Countries as Percentage of Advanced European Countries
198

Figures
I-1. Decay of Industrial Infrastructure in East Germany, 1988
3
I-2. National Income Use in East Germany, 1970-1988
4

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