Conflict And Stability In The German Democratic Republic

Author : Andrew I. Port
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521866510
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic written by Andrew I. Port and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mary Fulbrook
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857459759
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming East German written by Mary Fulbrook and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jeannette Z. Madarász
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403915689
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication and Compromise in the GDR written by Jeannette Z. Madarász and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : J. Madarász
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349512379
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971–1989 written by J. Madarász and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lyman H. Legters
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367017422
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German Democratic Republic written by Lyman H. Legters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shifting patterns of relationships in Central and Eastern Europe require that students of international relations be well versed in the attitudes and internal structures of the nations involved. Until now, material in English on the German Democratic Republic has consisted primarily of journalistic reminiscences or narrow scholarly treatments. Recognizing the need and responding to it, the authors of this book--leaders in the study of the GDR--present an up-to-date and comprehensive look at the country, focusing on domestic political and social change. The authors are agreed that the GDR is not only here to stay, but is also a rather stable society that can withstand moderate, well-regulated processes of change. They address education, intellectual life, the military, foreign relations, and the economy, as well as the customary subjects of politics and governmental direction.

Author : Martin Diewald
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804779456
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Fall of the Wall written by Martin Diewald and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal Republic of Germany abruptly created a new social order as old institutions were abolished and new counterparts imported. This unique situation provides an exceptional opportunity to examine the central tenets of life course sociology. The empirical chapters of this book draw a comprehensive picture of life course transformation, demonstrating how the combination of life course dynamics coupled with an extraordinary pace of system change affect individual lives. How much turbulence was created by the transition and how much stability was preserved? How did the qualifications and resources acquired before 1989 influence the fortunes in the restructured economy? How did the privatization and reorganization of firms impact individuals? Did the transformation experiences differ by age/cohort and gender? How stable were social networks at work and in the family? Were personality characteristics important mediators of post-1989 success or failure or were they rather changed by them? How specific were the East German life trajectories in comparison with Poland and West-Germany?

Author : Mark Allinson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719055546
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Popular Opinion in East Germany, 1945-68 written by Mark Allinson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of modernism critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites, concentrating Russian and Luso-Brazilian cultural dialogue and definition, give rise to peculiarly parallel anachronistic and alternative fictional forms. While comparatively reframing these literary traditions through an extensive survey of Russian and Brazilian literature, cartography, urban design and development, foregrounding innovative close readings of works by Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bely, Almeida, Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto, Mário de Andrade, the book also redefines new constellations (eccentric, concentric, ex-centric) for understanding geo-cultural and generic dimensions of modernist and post-modern literature and theory.

Author : George Last
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845459016
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the 'Socialist Spring' written by George Last and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical analysis of the German Democratic Republic has tended to adopt a top-down model of the transmission of authority. However, developments were more complicated than the standard state/society dichotomy that has dominated the debate among GDR historians. Drawing on a broad range of archival material from state and SED party sources as well as Stasi files and individual farm records along with some oral history interviews, this book provides a thorough investigation of the transformation of the rural sector from a range of perspectives. Focusing on the region of Bezirk Erfurt, the author examines on the one hand how East Germans responded to the end of private farming by resisting, manipulating but also participating in the new system of rural organization. However, he also shows how the regime sought via its representatives to implement its aims with a combination of compromise and material incentive as well as administrative pressure and other more draconian measures. The reader thus gains valuable insight into the processes by which the SED regime attained stability in the 1970s and yet was increasingly vulnerable to growing popular dissatisfaction and economic stagnation and decline in the 1980s, leading to its eventual collapse.

Author : Peter Grieder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230356869
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German Democratic Republic written by Peter Grieder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Hugh Ridley
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004414479
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law in West German Democracy written by Hugh Ridley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their time these important court cases influenced the development of a democratic legal system in a country struggling to overcome Hitler’s legacy. Today they cast a unique light on seventy years of West German social and political history.