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Author | : Quinn Slobodian |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782387064 |
In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East German internationalism.
Author | : Sara Pugach |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2022-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472055569 |
Describes the lived experiences of African students in communist East Germany to shed new light on the history of Germany, Africa, and decolonization
Author | : Christian F. Ostermann |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : 9789639241572 |
"A detailed introductory essay to provide the necessary historical and political context precedes each part. The individual documents are introduced by short headnotes summarizing the contents and orienting the reader. A chronology, glossary and bibliography offer further background information."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Victor Grossman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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).
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 | : Mike Dennis |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857451960 |
Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, ‘guest’ workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich Honecker’s rule over the communist system. It explores how they were able to resist persecution and surveillance by instruments of the state, thus illustrating the limits on the power of the East German dictatorship and shedding light on the notion of authority as social practice.
Author | : William Glenn Gray |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2003-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807862487 |
Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state following World War II. Unwilling to accept the division of their country, West German leaders regarded the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as an illegitimate upstart--a puppet of the occupying Soviet forces. Together with France, Britain, and the United States, West Germany applied political and financial pressure around the globe to ensure that the GDR remain unrecognized by all countries outside the communist camp. Proclamations of ideological solidarity and narrowly targeted bursts of aid gave the GDR momentary leverage in such diverse countries as Egypt, Iraq, Ghana, and Indonesia; yet West Germany's intimidation tactics, coupled with its vastly superior economic resources, blocked any decisive East German breakthrough. Gray argues that Bonn's isolation campaign was dropped not for want of success, but as a result of changes in West German priorities as the struggle against East Germany came to hamper efforts at reconciliation with Israel, Poland, and Yugoslavia--all countries of special relevance to Germany's recent past. Interest in a morally grounded diplomacy, together with the growing conviction that the GDR could no longer be ignored, led to the abandonment of Bonn's effective but outdated efforts to hinder worldwide recognition of the East German regime.
Author | : Eric Burton |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110623544 |
This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories.
Author | : Alan L. Nothnagle |
Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472109463 |
Shows how communist youth propaganda contributed to East Germany's success
Author | : Hester Vaizey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198718748 |
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.