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The Technical Intelligentsia and the East German Elite: Legitimacy and Social Change in Mature Communism

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The Technical Intelligentsia and the East German Elite: Legitimacy and Social Change in Mature Communism by Thomas A. Baylis examines the deliberate cultivation of engineers, scientists, economists, and managers in the German Democratic Republic and their role in shaping both political authority and regime transformation. Part I reconstructs the postwar creation and socialization of this technical intelligentsia, analyzing how workplaces were politicized and how professional values translat...