Description:
Focusing on major shifts in East Germany leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, End Game accounts for everyday life from the autumn of 1989 to the first free elections in March of 1990. With an understanding of the events of 1989 as a citizens' movement as a whole, the volume contextualizes the societal reactions to a nation's large scale political changes.
Brief description:
Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk is a historian in the research department of the Stasi Records Authority, where he has been on leave since 2018. Currently, he is a researcher at the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture to write a biography on Walter Ulbricht. He is the author of many books, including Die Übernahme. Wie Ostdeutschland Teil der Bundesrepublik wurde (2019), "Fasse Dich kurz!" Der grenzüberschreitende Telefonverkehr der Opposition in den 1980er Jahren und das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (2014), and 17. Juni 1953 (2013), Stasi konkret. Überwachung und Repression in der DDR (2013),
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Praise for the German Edition:
"This story is so far little known and not a big topic of the German public. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk closes our knowledge gaps in an impressive way" - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung