Conflict And Stability In The German Democratic Republic
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Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic
Author | : Andrew I. Port |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521866514 |
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This book explores the reasons why the post-World War II Communist regime in East Germany outlasted both the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich.
Becoming East German
Author | : Mary Fulbrook,Andrew I. Port |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780857459756 |
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For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a single-minded emphasis on repression and coercion fails to address a number of important historical issues, including those related to the subjective experiences of those who lived under communist regimes. With that in mind, the essays in this volume explore significant physical and psychological aspects of life in the GDR, such as health and diet, leisure and dining, memories of the Nazi past, as well as identity, sports, and experiences of everyday humiliation. Situating the GDR within a broader historical context, they open up new ways of interpreting life behind the Iron Curtain – while providing a devastating critique of misleading mainstream scholarship, which continues to portray the GDR in the restrictive terms of totalitarian theory.
Communication and Compromise in the GDR
Author | : Jeannette Z. Madarász |
Publsiher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2003-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1403915687 |
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This extensively researched empirical analysis of the GDR in the years 1971-1989 challenges current historical interpretations of GDR history. It focuses on four social groups-- youth, women, writers and Christians--to highlight the stability of this socialist society until 1987. The strength of the regime is shown to have been based on a continuously negotiated process of give-and-take involving major parts of the population.
Conflict and Compromise in East Germany 1971 1989
Author | : J. Madarász |
Publsiher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349512370 |
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This extensively researched empirical analysis of the GDR in the years 1971-1989 challenges current historical interpretations of GDR history. It focuses on four social groups - youth, women, writers and Christians - to highlight the stability of this socialist society until 1987. The strength of the regime is shown to have been based on a continuously negotiated process of give-and-take involving major parts of the population.
The German Democratic Republic
Author | : Peter Grieder |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2012-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780230356863 |
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A clear, concise and thought-provoking introduction to the history of East Germany which engages critically with key debates and advances new interpretations of the origins, development and demise of the GDR. Peter Grieder also offers an original conceptualization of the GDR as a totalitarian welfare state.
Four Color Communism
Author | : Sean Eedy |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2021-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781805394457 |
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As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering official ideology so as to develop the “socialist personality” of young people and generate enthusiasm for state socialism. The East German children who avidly read these comics, however, found their own meanings in and projected their own desires upon them. Four-Color Communism gives a lively account of East German comics from both perspectives, showing how the perceived freedoms they embodied created expectations that ultimately limited the regime’s efforts to bring readers into the fold.
Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany
Author | : April A. Eisman |
Publsiher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2018-09-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781640140318 |
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One of the first books to extend the currently burgeoning scholarship on East Germany to the visual arts, revealing that painting, like literature and film, was a space of contestation.
The Firm
Author | : Gary Bruce |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199750818 |
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Based on previously classified documents and on interviews with former secret police officers and ordinary citizens, The Firm is the first comprehensive history of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, at the grassroots level. Focusing on Gransee and Perleberg, two East German districts located north of Berlin, Gary Bruce reveals how the Stasi monitored small-town East Germany. He paints an eminently human portrait of those involved with this repressive arm of the government, featuring interviews with former officers that uncover a wide array of personalities, from devoted ideologues to reluctant opportunists, most of whom talked frankly about East Germany's obsession with surveillance. Their paths after the collapse of Communism are gripping stories of resurrection and despair, of renewal and demise, of remorse and continued adherence to the movement. The book also sheds much light on the role of the informant, the Stasi's most important tool in these out-of-the-way areas. Providing on-the-ground empirical evidence of how the Stasi operated on a day-to-day basis with ordinary people, this remarkable volume offers an unparalleled picture of life in a totalitarian state.