Dictatorship as Experience : : Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR / / ed. by Konrad H. Jarausch.
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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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1999] ©1999 |
Year of Publication: | 1999 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Beyond Uniformity: The Challenge of Historicizing the GDR
- The Theoretical Problem of Dictatorship
- 1. The GDR: A Special Kind of Modern Dictatorship
- 2. Modernization and Modernization Blockages in GDR Society
- 3. Care and Coercion: The GDR as Welfare Dictatorship
- Mechanisms of Political Repression
- 4. From Dismantling to Currency Reform: External Origins of the Dictatorship, 1943–1948
- 5. Foreign Influences on the Dictatorial Development of the GDR, 1949–1955
- 6. Repression and Tolerance as Methods of Rule in Communist Societies
- Means of Social Control
- 7. Creating State Socialist Governance: The Case of the Deutsche Volkspolizei
- 8. Food Supply in a Planned Economy: SED Nutrition Policy between Crisis Response and Popular Needs
- 9. The Myth of Female Emancipation: Contradictions in Women’s Lives
- 10. The Socialist Glass Ceiling: Limits to Female Careers
- Cultural Dimensions of Domination
- 11. Dictatorship as Discourse: Cultural Perspectives on SED Legitimacy
- 12. The Fettered Media: Controlling Public Debate
- 13. Criticism and Censorship: Negotiating Cabaret Performance and Book Production
- 14. The Pivotal Cadres: Leadership Styles and Self-Images of GDR-Elites
- Temporal Transformations
- 15. Stagnation or Change? Transformations of the Workplace in the GDR
- 16. The Hitler Youth Generation in the GDR: Insecurities, Ambitions and Dilemmas
- 17. Reforming Socialism? The Changing of the Guard from Ulbricht to Honecker during the 1960s
- 18. Mobility and Blockage during the 1970s
- Postscript
- 19. Rethinking the Second German Dictatorship
- Selected Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index