I'm reading Stasi State or Socialist Paradise by John Greene. it's a retrospective of the GDR focusing on things that the GDR got right (gender equality, housing, early childhood education and childcare generally) and trying to provide context for things that the GDR got wrong (Stasi, some other stuff).
I'm interested in the GDR right now because I had an epiphany moment that maybe the reason the Stasi was such a menace is that the GDR had to keep several million Nazis under control while under siege from all of capitalist Europe, so I'm interested in learning more about that, where it went wrong, where it worked.
I'm reading Stasi State or Socialist Paradise by John Greene. it's a retrospective of the GDR focusing on things that the GDR got right (gender equality, housing, early childhood education and childcare generally) and trying to provide context for things that the GDR got wrong (Stasi, some other stuff).
I'm interested in the GDR right now because I had an epiphany moment that maybe the reason the Stasi was such a menace is that the GDR had to keep several million Nazis under control while under siege from all of capitalist Europe, so I'm interested in learning more about that, where it went wrong, where it worked.