Dictatorship as experience : towards a socio-cultural history of the GDR /

"A decade after the collapse of communism, this volume presents a historical reflection on the perplexing nature of the East German dictatorship. In contrast to most political rhetoric, it seeks to establish a middle ground between totalitarianism theory, stressing the repressive features of th...

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Other Authors: Jarausch, Konrad Hugo
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 1999.
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245 0 0 |a Dictatorship as experience :  |b towards a socio-cultural history of the GDR /  |c edited by Konrad H. Jarausch; translated by Eve Duffy. 
260 |a New York :  |b Berghahn Books,  |c 1999. 
300 |a xii, 388 p. ;  |c 23 cm. 
500 |a "The essays in this collection originated in a conference on 'The GDR--a modern dictatorship?' held in Potsdam during early December of 1997 ..."--Pref. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-381) and index. 
521 8 |a 1580  |b Lexile. 
505 0 |a tBeyond uniformity : the challenge of historicizing the GDR /Konrad H. Jarausch --GDR : a special kind of modern dictatorship /Jürgen Kocka --Modernization and modernization blockages in GDR society /Detlef Pollack --Care and coercion : the GDR as welfare dictatorship /Konrad H. Jarausch --From dismantling to currency reform : external origins of the dictatorship, 1943-1948 /Jochen Laufer --Foreign influences on the dictatorial development of the GDR, 1949-1955 /Michael Lemke --Repression and tolerance as methods of rule in Communist societies /Mario Kessler and Thomas Klein --Creating state socialist governance : the case of the Deutsche Volkspolizei /Thomas Lindenberger --Food supply in a planned economy : SED nutrition policy between crisis response and popular needs /Burghard Ciesla and Patrice G. Poutrus --Myth of female emancipation : contradictions in women's lives /Leonore Ansorg and Renate Hürtgen --Socialist glass ceiling : limits to female careers /Dagmar Langenhan and Sabine Ross --Dictatorship as discourse : cultural perspectives on SED legitimacy /Martin Sabrow --Fettered media : controlling public debate /Simone Barck, Christoph Classen and Thomas Heimann --Criticism and censorship ; negotiating cabaret performance and book production /Sylvia Klötzer and Siegfried Lokatis --Pivotal cadres : leadership styles and self-images of GDR-elites /Arnd Baurkämper and Jürgen Danyel --Stagnation or change? Transformations of the workplace in the GDR /Peter Hübner --Hitler youth generation in the GDR : insecurities, ambitions and dilemmas /Dorothee Wierling --Reforming Socialism? The changing of the guard from Ulbricht to Honecker during the 1960s /Monika Kaiser --Mobility and blockage during the 1970s /Ralph Jessen --Rethinking the second German dictatorship /Christoph Klessmann. 
520 1 |a "A decade after the collapse of communism, this volume presents a historical reflection on the perplexing nature of the East German dictatorship. In contrast to most political rhetoric, it seeks to establish a middle ground between totalitarianism theory, stressing the repressive features of the SED regime, and apologetics of the socialist experiment, emphasizing the normality of daily lives."--BOOK JACKET. 
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651 0 |a Germany (East)  |x Social conditions  |v Congresses. 
651 0 |a Germany (East)  |x Social policy  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Political culture  |z Germany (East)  |v Congresses. 
700 1 |a Jarausch, Konrad Hugo. 
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