• 1. In the Beginning: 1945 - 1953 2. From the ‘New Course’ to the Berlin Wall: 1954-1961 3. In From the Cold: 1962-1976 3. The SED and the ‘Bureaucratic Stratum’ 5. The Constitution: Just a Beautiful Illusion? 6. The Economy: A Kind of Miracle? 7. Education - For Factory, Laboratory and Barracks 8. The Intellectual: Conformists, Outsiders and Others 9. The Mass Media: Not Just Newspeak? 10. The New Woman...With Some Old Problems 11. Defending the GDR in Berlin, Prague and Luanda 12. Foreign Relations: the Search for Recognition and Beyond 13. The GDR in the Age of Gorbachev

‘...should serve as the best informed overview of GDR affairs for some time to come’ Choice‘As a single-volume treatment of the history, political organization and social framework of the GDR (this volume) is unmatched’ Slavic Review