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Germany 1989
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Author : Lothar Kettenacker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-01-14
Germany 1989 written by Lothar Kettenacker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with History categories.
In autumn 1989 the world watched transfixed as East German citizens, demonstrating under the banner ‘We are the people!’, staged the only successful, totally peaceful revolution in German history. By October 1990, the process of reunification was formally concluded, bringing together a nation that had been divided for almost four decades. Now, nearly twenty years later, it is possible to judge the causes and consequences of the revolution more clearly. Was the fall of the Berlin Wall an unexpected fluke, or was it, in fact, the result of a long process of engagement between East and West? And did the momentous events of 1989 really signal the start of a bright new future for a united Germany? In this probing and wide-ranging account, Lothar Kettenacker considers the background behind the division of Germany and explains how the Berlin Wall and its death trap border proved to be the most horrendous manifestation of East-West antagonism. He also looks beyond 1990 to show how the confusion caused by the sudden collapse of the GDR and the fusion of two radically different economies is proving to be a challenge that will preoccupy Germany for generations to come.
We Were The People
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Author : Dirk Philipsen
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1993
We Were The People written by Dirk Philipsen and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
On the night of November 9, 1989, an electrified world watched as the Berlin Wall came down. Communism was dead, the Cold War was over, and freedom was on the rise—or so it seemed. We Were the People tells the story behind this momentous event. In an extraordinary series of interviews, the key actors in the drama that transformed East Germany speak for themselves, describing what they did, what happened and why, and what it has meant to them. The result is a powerful firsthand account of a rare historical moment, one that reverberates far beyond the toppled wall that once divided Germany and the world. The drama We Were the People recreates is remarkable for its richness and complexity. Here are citizens organizing despite threats of bloody crackdowns; party functionaries desperately trying to survive as time-honored political prerogatives crumble beneath their feet; an oppressed people discovering the possibilities of power and freedom, but also the sobering strangeness of new political realities. With their success, East Germans encountered the overpowering might of thie Western neighbor--and stand perplexed before the onslaught of real estate agents, glossy consumer ads, political professionalism--and the discovery that a lifetime of social experience has suddenly lost all usable context. They became, in the words of one participant, a people "without biography." Over all the recent events and unlikely turns recounted here, one thing remains paramount: the sweep of the initial democratic conception that animated the East German revolution. We Were the People brings this movement to life in all its drama and detail, and vividly recovers a historic moment that altered forever the shape of modern Europe. Some Voices of the People Bärbel Bohley/ "Mother of the Revolution" Rainer Eppelmann/ Protestant Pastor Klaus Kaden/ Church Emissary to the Opposition Hans Modrow/ Former Communist Prime Minister Ludwig Mehlhorn/ Opposition Theorist Ingrid Köppe/ Opposition Representative Frank Eigenfeld/ New Forum Harald Wagner/ Democracy Now Sebastian Pflugbeil/ Democratic Strategist East German Workers Cornelia Matzke/ Independent Women's Alliance André Brie/ Party Vice-Chairman Gerhard Ruden/ Environmental Activist Werner Bramke/ Party Academic
The Unification Of Germany 1989 1990
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Author : Richard A. Leiby
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1999-01-30
The Unification Of Germany 1989 1990 written by Richard A. Leiby and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-30 with History categories.
This work examines the forces that shaped the 1989 revolution and the political decisions of East and West Germans that followed. The author also addresses the effect of mass emigration from East to West, the role of the Protestant clergy in the revolution, and foreign reactions to the changes.
Origins Of A Spontaneous Revolution
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Author : Karl-Dieter Opp
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1995
Origins Of A Spontaneous Revolution written by Karl-Dieter Opp and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.
Explains the extraordinary collapse of Communist East Germany
The German Revolution Of 1989
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Author : Gert-Joachim Glaessner
language : en
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Release Date : 1992
The German Revolution Of 1989 written by Gert-Joachim Glaessner and has been published by Berg Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Germany categories.
An investigation by a team of international scholars into the causes and consequences of the collapse of the German Democratic Republic. The study details the numerous indications that a unique combination of destabilising factors coincided to bring about the end of "real socialism."
After The Berlin Wall
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Author : Hope M. Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-26
After The Berlin Wall written by Hope M. Harrison and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-26 with History categories.
A revelatory history of the commemoration of the Berlin Wall and its significance in defining contemporary German national identity.
1989 The Berlin Wall
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Author : Peter Millar
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-05-14
1989 The Berlin Wall written by Peter Millar and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Follow Peter Millar on a journey in the heart of Cold War Europe, from the carousing bars of 1970s Fleet Street to the East Berlin corner pub with its eclectic cast of characters who embodied the reality of living on the wrong side of the wall.
Divided Subjects Invisible Borders
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Author : Ben Gook
language : en
Publisher: Place, Memory, Affect
Release Date : 2015
Divided Subjects Invisible Borders written by Ben Gook and has been published by Place, Memory, Affect this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Collective memory categories.
Why do those born in eastern Germany today still identify with aspects of the GDR? What do Germany s memorials, films, nostalgias, memory debates and national commemorations tell us about the lives of Germans today? 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of German re-unification. Yet Germany remains divided; the unified Germany of the official representations hides its informal division, a screen that can be detected in fraught debates and divided German lives since 1989. Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders returns to the Nazi period and Cold War to argue that fantasies about whom the real Germans are have persisted down the decades to today, while official approaches to re-unification echoed and addressed those of post-war justice. Through examples from museums, film, commemoration, visual art, literature and political debate, it reveals how eastern Germany is represented, remembered and experienced in ways shaped by dominant ideas from the west."
The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
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Author : Jeffrey A. Engel
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2011-10
The Fall Of The Berlin Wall written by Jeffrey A. Engel and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10 with History categories.
More than two decades after the Wall's collapse, this book brings together leading authorities who offer a fresh look at how leaders in four vital centers of world politics--the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and China--viewed the world in the aftermath of this momentous event. Jeffrey Engel contributes a chronological narrative of this tumultuous period, followed by substantive essays by Melvyn Leffler on the United States, Chen Jian on China, James Sheehan on Germany and Europe, and William Taubman and Svetlana Savranskaya on the Soviet Union.
Unifying Germany 1989 1990
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Author : Manfred Görtemaker
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Unifying Germany 1989 1990 written by Manfred Görtemaker and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Communism categories.
Unifying Germany, 1989-1990 is perhaps the definitive account of the extraordinary months that mark a watershed in this century's history. It lucidly describes the events, both large and small, that led to unification in Germany and paints a broader picture of communism's decline throughout eastern Europe. Particular attention is given to the genesis of the liberalizing drive within the German Democratic Republic and the official reaction - on both sides of the Berlin Wall - to this phenomenon. Drawing from a great range of sources, Professor Gortemaker not only analyzes the threads that connect recent German developments directly to the nation's past but also the new factors that reflect a profound discontinuity with that same past. The book ends with a discussion of the impact these great events will have on the nature of the German state as their full cultural, financial, and political effects are absorbed in both the east and west.