Extra Flashcards
what did the GDR pride itself on?
the amount of social welfare it provided for it’s citizens
what is the TSPC?
The State Planning Commission
What did the state planning commission state?
that there were often tensions between ambitious social policies and economic performance
what did members still believe?
that improvements in social welfare would see improvements in productivity (khrushchev tacit bargain)
their own propaganda about the relative strength of the GDR economy
how much did GDR productivity exceed that in other COMECON countries by?
20 per cent
Mary Fulbrook quote about health benefits
‘sacred cows that could not be slaughtered even in the more difficult years of the 1980s when it was increasingly evident even to those without access to the real statistics that the GDR economy was in deep decline’
In 1989 new political groups were founded that openly challenged the authority of the SED for example…
democracy now and democratic awakening
