Cold war ecology : forests, farms, and people in the East German landscape, 1945-1989 /

East Germany, its economy, and its society were in decline long before the country's political collapse in the late 1980s. The clues were there in the natural landscape, Arvid Nelson argues, but policy analysts were blind to them. Had they noted the record of the leadership's values and go...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Arvid, 1951-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press ©2005.
Series:Yale agrarian studies.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1np8nh
Table of Contents:
  • Landscape and culture
  • Initial conditions and reparations
  • "A law would be good" : land reform
  • The landscape's "socialist transformation" and flight from the countryside (1949-1961)
  • The landscape transformed (1960-1961)
  • Cybermarxism and innovation (1961-1971)
  • The Grüneberg era and the triumph of industrial production methods (1971-1989).