Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic

by Peter C. Caldwell

Book Overview

The introduction of state planning and party dictatorship dramatically altered the environment for social theory in the German Democratic Republic. But social thought did not disappear. By the mid-1950s, East German social theorists discovered the basic contradictions of state socialism that would eventually lead to its collapse: the inability of the plan to function without markets and its inability to permit markets; the inability of the party-state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521030072
• ISBN13: 9780521030076
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"