Legitimation, Repression und Kooptation in der DDR
| Titel: | Legitimation, Repression und Kooptation in der DDR |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Mannheim : SSOAR, 2012 |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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begutachtet In: Totalitarismus und Demokratie ; 9 (2012) 1 ; 123-146 |
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Abstract: "The communist party in the German Democratic Republic claimed governmental legitimacy for being the builder of an antifascist state on the way to communism. The simulation of parliamentarism also played a role and, for a short period of time in the 1960s, the cooptation of technocrats as well. In the 1970s and 1980s the most important part of legitimacy was derived from the welfare policy under Erich Honecker. At no time was the political system stable without a considerable amount of repression. In the Soviet Occupation Zone and the early GDR repression was characterized by Stalinist terror: internment camps, military courts, and harsh punishment. Rigorous repression in 1952/53 and 1960/61 was connected to the attempts to accelerate the socialist revolution (normative legitimacy ). From 1949 to 1989 a gradual mitigation of repression took place, but not steadily. Relaxation in the watersheds such as in 1956, 1963, and 1971 came to a halt in 1960, 1965, and 1976 ff. Nevertheless |
