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By Gareth Dale
An incisive new learn of dissent and protest within the German Democratic Republic, concentrating on the upheaval of 1989-1990. the writer, an lively player either within the 'Citizens' flow' and on the street protests of that yr, attracts upon an enormous array of assets together with interviews, files from the files of the outdated regime and the electorate' circulate and his personal diary entries, to discover the explanations and procedures of the East German revolution. The ebook is without delay a lucid and colourful narrative heritage and a pioneering contribution to analyze during this box.
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75 But where functioning committees were established, they commonly evinced a remarkable fusion of democracy and authority. They were, Roth observes, ‘very careful to 24 Mass movements in the GDR’s early years stick to democratic rules. ’76 One of the committees’ first tasks involved redrawing the frontier of workplace control. In hundreds of factories they took charge, frequently occupying the ‘Workplace Party Organisation’ offices and in some cases even disarming the company’s security force.
That this could occur is in part due to the determination of the protestors but also in some cases to vacillation in the ranks of the security forces, which reflected not only the impact of the New Course but also the fact that the rising was a popular event and, as such, capable of exerting an influence upon members of the police (and, to a lesser extent, KVP). In numerous towns and cities a small but significant minority of police mutinied, deserted or even crossed over to the enemy. One worker marching out of the Leuna factory tells of how ‘two policemen approached us.
141 Evidence of this sort attests to the strength of the rising, indicating that sections of the workforce were not easily cowed. ’142 In the aftermath of the rising, poor-quality work (so-called sabotage) abounded, as did absences on grounds of ‘sickness’. In the more militant plants majorities of workers had the gall to vote against official resolutions that condemned the actions and activists of 17 June. Senior SED functionaries toured the factories giving pep-talks, but were commonly received with no interest.