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The case study part of this research is analysed against the background of changing external political parameters and internal economic decline discussed in Chapter 1. Broadly speaking, the period of study is limited to 1986–89 because, as a source-driven analysis, this is the period for which documents still exist. In some cases, though, the examples of deterioration and loyalty breakdown cited go back further than this, in order to re-emphasise the evolutionary nature of the GDR’s collapse and the gradual change in public opinion towards the state.
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Grix, J. (2000). Schwerin. In: The Role of the Masses in the Collapse of the GDR. New Perspectives in German Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977651_4
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