SED

Überblick

	1946-1949 the leading political party in the Soviet Zone of Occupation (SBZ) and 1949-1989 in the German Democratic Republic (DDR)
	It runs through a course of development similar to that of the Communist Party of the USSR: Stalinism, cult of the personality superficial de-Stalinization (after 1956); inner crises and purges after the popular uprising in the DDR of July 17, 1953 and the Hungarian uprising of 1956
	after the basic treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the DDR in 1972, aggravated border policies toward the West
	after 1982 opposition to the “peace movement” within its own camp
	since the mid-1980s, rejection of the reforms introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev
	in 1989, after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the DDR, the SED is absorbed into the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)

Struktur
The SED controls politics, the economy, and society in the DDR.