The Technical Intelligentsia And The East German Elite

Author : Thomas A. Baylis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520335503
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Technical Intelligentsia and the East German Elite written by Thomas A. Baylis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Author : Dolores L. Augustine
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262012367
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Prometheus written by Dolores L. Augustine and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the relationship between science and totalitarian rule in one of the most technically advanced countries in the East bloc examines professional autonomy under dictatorship and the place of technology in Communist ideology. In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology merged with a socialist system that made technological progress central to its ideology. Technology became an important part of East German socialist identity--crucial to how Communists saw their system and how citizens saw their state. In Red Prometheus, Dolores Augustine examines the relationship between a dictatorial system and the scientific and engineering communities in East Germany from the end of the Second World War through the 1980s. Drawing on newly opened archives and extensive interviews, Augustine looks in detail at individual scientists' interactions with the East German system, examining the effectiveness of their resistance against the party's totalitarian impulses. She explains why many German scientists and engineers who were deported to the Soviet Union after World War II returned to East Germany rather than defecting to the capitalist West, traces scientists' attempts to hold on to some aspects of professional autonomy, and describes challenges to their professional identity on the factory floor. Augustine examines the quality of science and technology produced under Communist rule, looking at failed research projects and clashing cultures of innovation. She looks at technological myth-building in science fiction and propaganda. She explores individual career strategies, including the role played by gender in high-tech professions, and the ways that both enterprises and individuals responded to increasing state and party control of research during the 1980s. We cannot understand the economic choices made by East Germany, Augustine argues, unless we understand the cultural values reflected in the East German belief in technology as indispensable to progress and industrial development.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems of Communism written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer A. Yoder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From East Germans to Germans? written by Jennifer A. Yoder and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the problems of integrating East Germans into a political system that they did not create.

Author : Natalia Tsvetkova
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004252029
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Failure of American and Soviet Cultural Imperialism in German Universities, 1945-1990 written by Natalia Tsvetkova and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Failure of American and Soviet Cultural Imperialism in German Universities, 1945-1990 Natalia Tsvetkova describes the American and Soviet policies in German universities during the Cold War. In both parts of divided Germany the conservative professorate resisted both the American and Soviet policies of reforms in universities. Whether these policies can be considered cases of cultural imperialism will be discussed in this book. As well as how and why both American and Soviet policies of the transformation of German universities eventually failed.

Author : Val D. Rust
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351004603
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education in East and West Germany written by Val D. Rust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984. This annotated bibliography is a comprehensive record of English-language materials which focus on Education in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It provides an excellent resource to scholars, beginning with a long introductory chapter about the role of education, formal and non-formal, in the two Germanies. The socio-historical context is presented but also the authors offer discussion of educational research trends. The bibliography is structured in useful thematic chapters and within the categories then split into those relating to East and West Germany.

Author : Nessim Ghouas
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3898739880
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conditions, Means and Methods of the MfS in the GDR written by Nessim Ghouas and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eugene K. Keefe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Germany, a Country Study written by Eugene K. Keefe and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Fulbrook
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118776143
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Germany 1918 - 2014 written by Mary Fulbrook and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of A History of Germany, 1918-2014: A Divided Nation introduces students to the key themes of 20th century German history, tracing the dramatic social, cultural, and political tensions in Germany since 1918. Now thoroughly updated, the text includes new coverage of the Euro crisis and a review of Angela Merkel’s Chancellorship. New edition of a well-known, classic survey by a leading scholar in the field, thoroughly updated for a new generation of readers Provides an overview of the turbulent history of Germany from the end of the First World War through the Third Reich and beyond, examining the character and consequences of war and genocide Treats German history from 1918 to 2014 from the perspectives of instability, division and reunification, covering East and West German history in equal depth Offers important reflections on Angela Merkel’s Chancellorship as it extends into a new term Concise, substantive coverage of this period make it an ideal resource for undergraduate students

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.