East Germany n (Placename) a former republic in N central Europe: established in 1949 and declared a sovereign state by the Soviet Union in 1954; Communist regime replaced by a multiparty democracy in 1989; reunited with West Germany in 1990. Official name:German Democratic Republic,DDR(Abbrevia...
The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was established in 1949 from the area of Germany occupied by the Soviet Union. East Berlin became the capital of the new country. As West Berlin remained part of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) the capital was the cause of great ...
Just as the world did not know much about the existence of concentration camps and the horrors committed by Nazi Germany until after its demise, so the world did not know the true extent of the horrors committed by the Chinese Communist Party until after its collapse. Under the direct command...
and their acts: For example, with the exception of Yugoslavia, the Czech regime enjoys strong support among the indigenous population, East Germany very little. On the other hand, Yugoslavia’s and Albania’s regimes, also at opposite ends of the spectrum regarding the support of their ...
Chapter 3 is divided into two parts, which mirror the dual nature of the scheme’s motivations. The first half provides the political and economic background of the labor and training programs that brought Angol
the environment. Some governments have tried until recently to deny that any environmental problem exists. East Germany blames its dying forests on storms and heavy snow. One Czech Communist Party ideologist attributed environmental problems to ”non-Socialist individuals still surviving in the country....
On Friday, Parliament voted to take away the monopoly on political power that the Communist Party enjoyed since the founding of the East German state in the postwar division of Germany. Just before the mass resignations were announced Sunday, hundreds of thousands of East Germans joined hands to...
Germany, for example, with its high unem- ployment and proximity to eastern labor, may face adjustment costs in the short term, but along with Austria, it is predicted to have the highest overall permanent net increase in GDP from 7. Baldwin, Francois, and Portes, "Costs and Benefits of...
Germany’s working class. Honecker’s “Marxism-Leninism” devolved further and further into sterile and anachronistic phraseology. To Honecker, all of the big questions of socialist analysis and strategy had already been sufficiently solved by Marx, Engels, and Lenin. The Communist Party was the ...
They were still in the Netherlands during the fall of the wall. The next State visit for Erich, accompanied by some of his "Fat-Cats" was to be to West Germany in September 1987., and the third State visit would be in October 1987 to Belgium. The highlight, a meeting with the ...