From East Germans to Germans?: The New Postcommunist Elites.(Review) (book review)

From East Germans to Germans?: The New Postcommunist Elites. By Jennifer A. Yoder. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 1999. 287p. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

The unification of the two Germanys has led to a surge of scholarly literature. Between 1990 and 1995 alone, approximately 3,000 German-language studies analyzed the political, social, and economic transformation processes in the former East Germany. Clearly, in the English-speaking world, the interest in and analysis of German unification have been more muted. Indeed, due to the singularity of unification and the ...

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