What Is Life Like In The Gdr
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What Is Life Like In The Gdr
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
What Is Life Like In The Gdr written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Cost and standard of living categories.
Becoming East German
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Author : Mary Fulbrook
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-09-30
Becoming East German written by Mary Fulbrook and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-30 with History categories.
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.
Born In The Gdr
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Author : Hester Vaizey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Born In The Gdr written by Hester Vaizey and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
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.
Bringing Culture To The Masses
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Author : Esther von Richthofen
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2009
Bringing Culture To The Masses written by Esther von Richthofen and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
This text explores how cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, through attempts to dictate the way people spent their free time. It shows how people's cultural life in the GDR developed a dynamic of its own.
Our Life Behind The Berlin Wall
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Author : Gregory W. Sandford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-23
Our Life Behind The Berlin Wall written by Gregory W. Sandford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-23 with History categories.
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a wealth of historical writing about the German Democratic Republic (GDR) at the macro level. This book supplements that record with a history written from the micro level, detailing what it was like to live in that society with the advantages of both an insider's and an outsider's perspectives. As a diplomat assigned to the U.S. Embassy in East Berlin, Dr. Sandford had sources of information inaccessible to most visitors from the West. Representing one of the four WWII Allied powers with occupation rights in Berlin, he experienced at firsthand the complexities of four-power control of that city. He also traveled freely within East Germany, speaking with GDR government officials, dissidents, and average citizens, including clergymen who shared their informed views on what was really going on in that society. Framed as a personal record for his two daughters who were small children at the time, this memoir describes Dr. Sandford's experiences and impressions of East Germany in its latter years (1984-87) and those of his family. With a combination of anecdotes, narrative descriptions, and informed analysis, it conveys the texture of life there both for local people and for resident diplomats. Finally, it recounts how he and his East German contacts experienced the fall of the Wall and the transition to democracy in their individual ways.
Crossing The River
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Author : Victor Grossman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Crossing The River written by Victor Grossman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Faced with an accusation from the US Army's highest legal authority in 1952, Grossman left his unit stationed in Bavaria and swam the Danube to East Germany. He traces his childhood and experiences as a student, worker, and soldier; then describes life in his new home among a surprisingly large community of defectors. There is no index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Politics And Popular Opinion In East Germany 1945 68
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Author : Mark Allinson
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2000
Politics And Popular Opinion In East Germany 1945 68 written by Mark Allinson and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
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.
Power And Society In The Gdr 1961 1979
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Author : Mary Fulbrook
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2009
Power And Society In The Gdr 1961 1979 written by Mary Fulbrook and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
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.
After The Fall Of The Wall
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Author : Martin Diewald
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2006-09-26
After The Fall Of The Wall written by Martin Diewald and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-26 with History categories.
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?
Sex Thugs And Rock N Roll
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Author : Mark Fenemore
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Sex Thugs And Rock N Roll written by Mark Fenemore and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with History categories.
A fascinating and highly readable account of what it was like to be young and hip, growing up in East Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Living on the frontline of the Cold War, young people were subject to a number of competing influences. For young men from the working class, in particular, a conflict developed between the culture they inherited from their parents and the new official culture taught in schools. Merging with street gangs, new youth cultures took shape, which challenged authority and provided an alternative vision of modernity. Taking their fashion cues, music and icons from the West, they rapidly came into conflict with a didactic and highly controlling party-state. Charting the clashes which occurred between teenage rebels and the authorities, the book explores what happened when gender, sexuality, Nazism, communism and rock 'n' roll collided during a period, which also saw the building of the Berlin Wall.