Download or read book Communication and Compromise in the GDR written by Jeannette Z. Madarász and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensively researched empirical analysis of the GDR in the years 1971-1989 challenges current historical interpretations of GDR history. It focuses on four social groups-- youth, women, writers and Christians--to highlight the stability of this socialist society until 1987. The strength of the regime is shown to have been based on a continuously negotiated process of give-and-take involving major parts of the population.