Jonathan Grix's study shows the extent to which citizens of the GDR dictatorship were instrumental in their state's demise. The book's publication coincides with the tenth anniversary of the collapse of the East German regime
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This book examines the role of the masses in the collapse of the East German regime and state in 1989 in the northern district of Schwerin. It shows the extent to which citizens of the GDR dictatorship were instrumental in their state's demise. The 'bottom-up' approach employed,…
Jonathan Grix's study shows the extent to which citizens of the GDR dictatorship were instrumental in their state's demise. The book's publication coincides with the tenth anniversary of the collapse of the East German regime.
"The book accomplishes three main objectives. First, it presents a logic and method for describing contentious events, occasions on which people publicly make consequential claims on each other. Second, it shows how that logic yields superior explanations of the dynamics in such…