Planning and international integration in Soviet Germany

Authors

  • W.F. STOLPER

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2037-3643/11897

Keywords:

Eastern Germany, GDR, Soviet Union, socialist planning, development

Abstract

The German Democratic Republic has developed into a powerful member of the Soviet bloc, and yet little attention has so far been paid to it. The author argues that communist propaganda pictures developments in East Germany as a triumph of socialist planning over inherited backwardness, while free-market economists consider every failure as proof of imminent collapse. Instead, East Germany is a very interesting case of its own due to the peculiarity of its resource endowment as well as the recent history of bombing and war damage.

 

JEL: O20, O52, P21

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Published

2014-03-26

How to Cite

STOLPER, W. (2014). Planning and international integration in Soviet Germany. PSL Quarterly Review, 14(57). https://doi.org/10.13133/2037-3643/11897

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 57 (1961)

Section

Editorial

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