Chapter 7. Final Crisis and Collapse, 1989–90

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Abbreviations viii
4. Introduction. Ten Years and Forty-five Days 1
5. Chapter 1. Antifascism—Stalinism—Cold Civil War: Origins and Influences, 1945 to 1956 11
6. Chapter 2. The Safest GDR in the World: The Driving Forces of Stasi Growth 48
7. Chapter 3. The Unofficial Collaborator: A New Type of Informer 77
8. Chapter 4. Blanket Surveillance? State Security in East German Society 96
9. Chapter 5. Resistance—Opposition—Persecution 124
10. Chapter 6. Wolf and Co.: MfS Operations Abroad 154
11. Chapter 7. Final Crisis and Collapse, 1989–90 188
12. Chapter 8. Legacy—Aufarbeitung—Culture of Memory: The Second Life of the Stasi 201
13. Appendices 223
14. Notes 228
15. Selected Bibliography 244
16. Index 248