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Author | : André Steiner |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178238314X |
Download The Plans That Failed Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and West, and of the resultant partition of Germany. As the author argues, the GDR’s ‘new’ society was deliberately conceived as a counter-model to the liberal and marketregulated system. Although the hopes connected with this alternative system turned out to be misplaced and the planned economy may be thoroughly discredited today, it is important to understand the context in which it developed and failed. This study, a bestseller in its German version, offers an in-depth exploration of the GDR economy’s starting conditions and the obstacles to growth it confronted during the consolidation phase. These factors, however, were not decisive in the GDR’s lack of growth compared to that of the Federal Republic. As this study convincingly shows, it was the economic model that led to failure.
Author | : Quinn Slobodian |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782387064 |
Download Comrades of Color Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East German internationalism.
Author | : David Childs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2014-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317883101 |
Download The Fall of the GDR Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The book charts the dramatic months leading to one of the most profound changes of the 20th century, the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the restoration of German unity in 1990. The author analyses the nature of Communist rule in the GDR over 40 years, its few strengths and its many weaknesses, and the myths which grew up around it. This book places the GDR in its international setting as the proud ally of the Soviet Union in the Warsaw Pact. It examines the reactions abroad to the unfolding revolution. The text is based on a wide variety of written sources and many interviews with leading Communist figures, such as Krenz and Modrow, and with their opponents and successors, and former Stasi officers and the dissidents they tried to crush. It greatly benefits from the author's decades of involvement with East Germany, including personal friendships there, before 1989 and his eye-witness accounts of many of the events during Die Wende. It should be of interest not only to students of German politics, contemporary history and the Cold War, but to all who are curious about the momentous times through which we have lived.
Author | : Hester Vaizey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198718748 |
Download Born in the GDR Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The real life stories of eight East Germans caught up in the dramatic transition from Communism to Capitalism by the fall of the Berlin Wall - and what they feel about life after the Wall.
Author | : Karen Leeder |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107006368 |
Download Rereading East Germany Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first volume in English about the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a cultural phenomenon, with essays by leading scholars providing a chronological and genre-based overview along with close readings of individual works. It addresses the history and context of GDR culture, including the two decades since its decline.
Author | : Stephan Ehrig |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Germany (East) |
ISBN | : 9781787070721 |
Download The GDR Today Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The GDR Today promotes interdisciplinary approaches to East Germany by gathering articles from a new generation of scholars in a variety of fields. Exploring East German everyday life, cultural policies, memory and memorialisation, the volume aims to offer new impulses to the study of the GDR.
Author | : Sean Eedy |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2021-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1800730012 |
Download Four-Color Communism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Mary Fulbrook |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845454357 |
Download Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The communist German Democratic Republic was founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany. This book looks at its history and how people came to terms with their new lives behind the Wall. In the 1960s and 1970s, a fragile stability emerged characterized by 'consumer socialism', international recognition and détente. Growing participation in the micro-structures of power, and conformity to the unwritten rules of an increasingly predictable system, suggest increasing accommodation to dominant norms and conceptions of socialist 'normality.' These essays explore the ways in which lower-level functionaries and people at the grass roots contributed to the formation and transformation of the GDR ? from industry and agriculture, through popular sport and cultural life, to the passage of generations and varieties of social experience.
Author | : Enrico Heitzer |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2021-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178920853X |
Download After Auschwitz Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From the moment of its inception, the East German state sought to cast itself as a clean break from the horrors of National Socialism. Nonetheless, the precipitous rise of xenophobic, far-right parties across the present-day German East is only the latest evidence that the GDR’s legacy cannot be understood in isolation from the Nazi era nor the political upheavals of today. This provocative collection reflects on the heretofore ignored or repressed aspects of German mainstream society—including right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism—to call for an ambitious renewal of historical research and political education to place East Germany in its proper historical context.
Author | : Anna Saunders |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2018-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785336819 |
Download Memorializing the GDR Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, political, and historical contexts. Emphasizing the interrelationship of built environment, memory and identity, it brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history, as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of identity.