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The '''German Democratic Republic''' ('''GDR'''), sometimes referred to as '''East Germany''', was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990. In english it was referred to as a [[communist state]], but it described itself as a [[Socialist state|socialist]] "workers' and peasants' state" <ref name="MajorOsmond">Patrick Major, Jonathan Osmond, ''The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany Under Ulbricht 1945–71'', Manchester University Press, 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-7190-6289-6}}</ref>
The '''German Democratic Republic''' ('''GDR'''), sometimes referred to as '''East Germany''', was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990. In english it was referred to as a [[communist state]], but it described itself as a [[Socialist state|socialist]] "workers' and peasants' state" <ref name="MajorOsmond">Patrick Major, Jonathan Osmond, ''The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany Under Ulbricht 1945–71'', Manchester University Press, 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-7190-6289-6}}</ref>
== References ==

Revision as of 19:08, 20 April 2021

The German Democratic Republic (GDR), sometimes referred to as East Germany, was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990. In english it was referred to as a communist state, but it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state" [1]

References

  1. Patrick Major, Jonathan Osmond, The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany Under Ulbricht 1945–71, Manchester University Press, 2002, Template:ISBN