Influence of Czechoslovak Events 1968 on the Economic Reforms in GDR
The events of the Prague Spring of 1968 were a turning point in the history of the international Communist movement, deepening split emerged a decade earlier. Moreover, the crisis of the Czechoslovak reformism questioned the prospects of economic reforms undertaken in the 1960s in a number of Eastern European socialist countries, including the GDR. The local party nomenclature considered the new economic system of planning and management and the decentralization of the economic process as a potential threat for political stability in the GDR and the SED monopoly on power. In this article the author has attempted to determine on archival material the role of the 1968 crisis in the economic reforms reversal in the GDR.