Dictatorship As Experience : Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR.

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 the SED-...

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Other Authors: Jarausch, Konrad Hugo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 1999.
Subjects:
Dictatorship > Germany (East) > Congresses.
Communism > Germany (East) > History > Congresses.
Political culture > Germany (East) > Congresses.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Communism
Dictatorship
Political culture
Social conditions
Social policy
Diktatur
Gesellschaft
Politisches System
Aufsatzsammlung
Kongress
Dictatuur.
Politieke cultuur.
Sociale geschiedenis.
Germany (East) > Social conditions > Congresses.
Germany (East) > Social policy > Congresses.
Germany (East)
Deutschland > DDR
Deutschland (DDR)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Introduction; Part II: The Theoretical Problem of Dictatorship; Chapter 1: The GDR; Chapter 2: Modernization and Modernization Blockages in GDR Society; Chapter 3: Care and Coercion; Part III: Mechanisms of Political Repression; Chapter 4: From DIsmantling to Currency Reform; Chapter 5: Foreign Influences on the Dictatorial Development of the GDR, 1949-1955; Chapter 6: Repression and Tolerance as Methods of Rule in Communist Societies; Part IV: Means of Social Control; Chapter 7: Creating State Socialist Governance.
  • Chapter 8: Food Supply in a Planned EconomyChapter 9: The Myth of Female Emancipation; Chapter 10: The Socialist Glass Ceiling; Part V: Cultural Dimensions of Domination; Chapter 11: Dictatorship as Discourse; Chapter 12: The Fettered Media; Chapter 13: Criticism and Censorship; Chapter 14: THe Pivotal Cadres; Part VI: Temporal Transformations; Chapter 15: Stagnation or Change?; Chapter 16: The Hitler Youth Generation in the GDR; Chapter 17: Reforming Socialism?; Chapter 18: Mobility and Blockage During the 1970s; Postscript; Chapter 19: Rethinking the Second German Dictatorship.
  • Selected BibliographyNotes on Contributors; Index.

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