External Cultural and Information Activities of East Germany (GDR) in Non-communist Countries
Author | : United States Information Agency. Office of Research |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Germany (East) |
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Author | : United States Information Agency. Office of Research |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Germany (East) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Fulbrook |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857459759 |
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.
Author | : Helena Merriman |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2021-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541788826 |
He escaped from one of the world’s most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in. In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and children—all willing to risk everything to escape. From the award-winning creator of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 podcast, Tunnel 29 is the true story of this most remarkable Cold War rescue mission. Drawing on interviews with the survivors and Stasi files, Helena Merriman brilliantly reveals the stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious group of student-diggers, the glamorous red-haired messenger, the Stasi spy who threatened the whole enterprise, and the love story that became its surprising epilogue. Tunnel 29 was also the first made-for-TV event of its kind; it was funded by NBC, who wanted to film an escape in real time. Their documentary—which was nearly blocked from airing by the Kennedy administration, which wanted to control the media during the Cold War—revolutionized TV journalism. Ultimately, Tunnel 29 is a success story about freedom: the valiant citizens risking everything to win it back, and the larger world rooting for them to triumph.
Author | : Sabine Kuhlmann |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2021-01-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030536971 |
This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership.
Author | : United States Information Agency. Office of Research |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Cultural relations |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Leslie A. Adelson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : German literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Fulbrook |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845454357 |
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.
Author | : Young-sun Hong |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2015-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107095573 |
This book examines global humanitarian efforts involving the two German states and Third World liberation movements during the Cold War.
Author | : Hartmut Berghoff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2013-10-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107030137 |
The contributors to this volume consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts.