End Game

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface to the 2015 edition

Introduction

Part 1: Images of a Social Crisis

Prologue
Chapter 1. General Conditions
Chapter 2. The GDR in Its International Context
Chapter 3. Symptoms of Crisis
Chapter 4. Nuances: Regional Variations and Subcultures
Chapter 5. Countermovements: The Pull of the West and the Churches
Chapter 6. Opposition in the SED State
Chapter 7. Germination Time: The Ossietzky Affair

Part 2: From the Social Crisis to a Crisis of the Dictatorship

Chapter 8. The Social Crisis Deepens
Chapter 9. Regime Collapse and Historic Days

Part 3: The Fall of a Dictatorship

Chapter 10. From Demonstrations to the Fall of the Wall
Chapter 11. The Fallout
Chapter 12. Forging a New Path: Elections and Reunification

Conclusion: The Revolution. Or: Otto Schily as a Symbol

Afterword for the 2021 edition: From the Revolution in the GDR in 1989 to Eastern Germany in the Twenty-first Century

Select Bibliography
Index