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Becoming East German : socialist structures and sensibilities after Hitler

Fulbrook, Mary, 1951- editor, contributor, Port, Andrew I., editor, contributor

2015

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Berghahn
• Subject: Socialism Germany (East) History. / Medical policy Germany (East) / Public health Germany (East) / Socialism and culture Germany (East) / Cultural policy. / Medical policy. / Public health. / Social conditions. / Social policy. / Socialism. / Socialism and culture. / Germany (East) Social policy. / Germany (East) Social conditions. / Germany (East) Cultural policy. / Germany (East)
• ISBN: 9781785330278, 1785330276

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DD283.B427 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE