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2.1
NES 1963-68
directors at lower levels were given more decision-making powers to enable initiative and innovation
focus on optics/chemicals
quality > quantity
government retain overall control
still seen as a move away from communism
Weaknesses
many party members opposed it as it weakened the communist ideology
people feared that the bonuses and incentives would make 'socialist millionaires'
labour force was largely unskilled so couldn't favour quality
Brezhnev saw it as a failure
lack of consumer goods
Economic System of Socialism 1968-70
emphasis on computer tech/chemical/plastic
more centralised
initially successful with industrial production grew
GDR replaced poland as the main trading partner of the USSR
Weaknesses
never overtook FRG
still not enough consumer goods so people carried 'perhaps bags'
no room for initiative
normalisation
mary fullbrook
the gdr survived as many of its citizens accepted it as normal and had not known anything else
during the 70s there was a reliable workforce and little opposition
end of mass migration
larger Stasi force present
many remembered the 1953 uprising and wanted to avoid another incidence like that
the physical division of a wall dampened motivation to rebel