Constructing Socialism: Technology and Change in East Germany 1945-1990Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 - 260 Seiten Trabant cars carried many East Germans westward after the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989. The car's 1950s design, obvious environmental incorrectness and all-plastic body became a symbol of the technological limitations of East German communism. But as Raymond G. Stokes points out in this text, eastern Germany in 1945 was one of the most highly developed, technologically sophisticated industrial areas in the world. Despite the evident failings of its technology by the late 1980s, the German Democratic Republic maintained advanced technological capability in selected areas. If the system itself was fundamentally flawed, what explains successes under the very same system? Why could the successes not be repeated in other areas? And if examples of success are so isolated, how did East Germany last as long as it did? |
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Introduction | 1 |
Defining a Socialist System of Innovation in the GDR 19451958 | 13 |
Socialist Technology at the Crossroads 19581961 | 55 |
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