Abstract
In the following article the author discussed the form of research and the central
effects of a doctor’s project about four smaller party-blocks in the last years of the DDR.
The citizens and members of all five party blocks, also SED, demanded between summer
1986 and November 1989 political and economic reforms in the DDR, referring to
Gorbatschow’s glasnost’ and perestroika and under the dynamical influence of the social
processes in Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Romania. The parties’ members issued
critical statements about social deficits within the socialistic system which were relayed
to the party leaders with different intensity. The dissertation shall provide answers concerning
assumed impulses for the DDR-reformation from the party-blocks even without
the citizens’ initiatives and the political engagement of the churches. T he a rticle d iscussed
the developments of CDU(D), LDP(D), NDPD and DBD since 1980ies and described
their positioning within the political and economic system of the DDR.
