How Long to Read How Socialist East Germany's Elite Turned Capitalist

How Long Does it Take to Read How Socialist East Germany's Elite Turned Capitalist?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read How Socialist East Germany's Elite Turned Capitalist by Gerhard Schnehen

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When East and West Germany re-united, the world was amazed — but this great moment should have been foreseen. East Germany, the GDR, was not transformed by a counterrevolution from the outside; the leadership was always capitalist at heart. The author shows how they were undermining the socialist foundations even in the 1950s, as soon as Stalin died. Gerhard Schnehen leads us through the historic events that led to the formation of the German Democratic Republic, GDR. He documents what others have left out of the story, explaining the underlying causes why the supposedly 'Communist' part of Germany collapsed in 1989, to be completely integrated into the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany. The reunited and imperialist Germany today is the dominant force in the European Union and the main ally of US imperialism, globalism and neoliberalism. With the rise to power of the Khrushchev clique, the GDR also changed colors. Guided by Khrushchev and his group, they introduced economic reforms leading to the restoration of a type of capitalism in the country where the profit principle was reinstated as the main regulator of social production. This in turn caused numerous and chronic crises in the country which in the West were then happily attributed to socialism or communism as a whole, inviting attacks on 'a system that cannot work.' However, such commentators completely ignore and do not want to discuss the fact that GDR’s 'socialism' was brought down very early, in the early sixties, by leading officials of the ruling party themselves, who introduced a whole series of capitalist 'reforms' in order to 'modernize socialism' and to make it 'more effective' (as the Ulbricht reformers put it). These so-called reforms are analyzed here at length, illustrating how they did away with socialist principles and restored capitalist principles into the economy in a way that made the country prone to the chronic crises typical of capitalism. This then led to a substantial part of the dissatisfied population turning away from socialism, the 'socialist' state and the SED ruling party, and looking toward West Germany for a better lifestyle. In late 1989, the GDR imploded and within months it was swallowed up by West German banks and corporations.

How long is How Socialist East Germany's Elite Turned Capitalist?

How Socialist East Germany's Elite Turned Capitalist by Gerhard Schnehen is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read How Socialist East Germany's Elite Turned Capitalist Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read How Socialist East Germany's Elite Turned Capitalist aloud.

What Reading Level is How Socialist East Germany's Elite Turned Capitalist?

How Socialist East Germany's Elite Turned Capitalist is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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