E-Books →The Soviet Zone of Germany

Anyone who wants to find out how the GDR was analyzed and classified half a decade after its founding by a German-American team of excellent experts in more than 600 pages will hardly find a better source than this work, which was only published in bound manuscript form (1956), has been largely forgotten and hardly received. It appears in the series "Paths of Totalitarianism Research" of the Hannah Arendt Institute because it was written in direct connection with the development of the most discussed concept of totalitarianism under the aegis of the political scientist Carl J. Friedrich at Harvard University. One of his closest colleagues and co-authors was the later US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The list of authors and advisors (including Gerhard Abeken, Fritz Baade, Erich Matthias, Carl Mayer, Heinrich Rittershausen, Otto Stammer, Carola Stern, Karl C. Thalheim, Siegfried Unseld) reads like a who's who of early GDR research.