Publisher's Synopsis
The Peaceful Revolution was the process of sociopolitical change that led to the opening of East Germany's borders with the west, the end of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the German Democratic ..
Peaceful Revolution
Index
Chapter 1: Peaceful Revolution
1.1 Soviet policy toward the Eastern Bloc
1.2 East German reaction to Soviet reforms
Chapter 2: Catalysts for the crisis of 198
2.1 Electoral fraud
2.2 Gaps in the Iron Curtain
2.3 Opening of the Hungarian and Czechoslovak borders
2.4 Newly formed opposition
Chapter 3: Decisive events of 198
3.1 40th anniversary of GDR
3.2 Role of the church
Chapter 4: Alexanderplatz demonstration
4.1 Demonstration
4.2 Plan X
4.3 Ruling party starts to lose power
Chapter 5: Fall of the Berlin Wall
5.1 Political changes in East Germany
5.2 New East German emigration policy
5.3 Events
5.4 Spreading news
5.5 Peace prayers at Nikolai Church
5.6 Crowding of the border
5.7 Border openings
5.8 "Wallpeckers" demolition
5.9 Prime ministers meet
5.10 Official demolition
5.11 International opposition
Chapter 6: Legacy
Chapter 7: Fall of the inner German border
7.1 Opening of the border
Chapter 8: Abandonment of the border
8.1 Political situation during the transition
