Against the backdrop of upheaval throughout the Soviet Empire the people of East Germany arose in spontaneous revolt. Yet the story is more complex than a struggle between Church and State. East Germany survived forty years of totalitarian rule by a regime armed to the teeth, which riddled its society with spies and informants and smothered it with communist doctrine, yet failed to extinguish yearnings for freedom. Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia took the first steps in acting on these yearnings. This remarkable book is based ...
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Against the backdrop of upheaval throughout the Soviet Empire the people of East Germany arose in spontaneous revolt. Yet the story is more complex than a struggle between Church and State. East Germany survived forty years of totalitarian rule by a regime armed to the teeth, which riddled its society with spies and informants and smothered it with communist doctrine, yet failed to extinguish yearnings for freedom. Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia took the first steps in acting on these yearnings. This remarkable book is based on interviews with the participants including church leaders, pastors, and dissidents, as well as former party officials. The frank interviews were augmented by videotapes and Stasi, party and church documents. Emotion pulsates through the pages of this book. Freedom unleashed in East Germany was an event the world had no reason to anticipate. Yet it happened.
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