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
- ↑ 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