United and Divided

by Dennis, Mike; Kolinsky, Eva

• ISBN13: 9781571815132
• ISBN10: 1571815139
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

The system transformation after German unification in 1990 constituted an experiment on an unprecedented scale. At no point in history had one state attempted to redesign another without conquest, bloodshed or coercion but by treaties, public policy, and bureaucratic processes. Unification was achieved by erasing the eastern political and economic model. Incorporating new research findings and published data, the contributors focus on key aspects of economic, political, and social transformation in eastern Germany and compare, through case studies, each area with developments in the west.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vi
List of Tables	vi
List of Contributors	vii
United and Divided: Germany since 1990.	1	(16)
An Introduction
Mike Dennis and Eva Kolinsky
1 Constructing East Germany: Interpretations of GDR History since Unification	17	(19)
Mike Dennis
2 Financing German Unity: Challenges, Methods and Longer-term Consequences	36	(19)
Christopher Flockton
3 The Party of Democratic Socialism as Political Voice of East Germany	55	(13)
Peter Barker
4 Challenges to Rechtsstaatlichkeit in the Berlin Republic: The Kohl Affair and the Stasi Legacy	68	(25)
Anthony Glees
5 Economic Restructuring from Below? The Role of Small and Medium-sized Business in East Germany since 1990	93	(17)
Christopher Flockton
6 Challenges of Participation in German Higher Education - an East West Comparison	110	(13)
Rosalind M.O. Pritchard
7 Transformation and Injustice: Women in East German Universities	123	(22)
Marianne Kriszio
8 Meanings of Migration in East Germany and the West German Model	145	(31)
Eva Kolinsky
9 Between Integration and Exclusion: Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Germany	176	(19)
Karin Weiss
Select Bibliography	195	(4)
Glossary	199	(2)
Index	201