Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979 : : The 'Normalisation of Rule'? /

Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979 : : The 'Normalisation of Rule'? / / ed. by Mary Fulbrook.

The communist German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany is, for many people, epitomized by the Berlin Wall; Soviet tanks and surveillance by the secret security police, the Stasi, appear to be central. But is this really all there is to the GDR¹s his...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Allinson, Mark,
Brock, Angela,
Fulbrook, Mary,
Last, George,
Lüdtke, Alf,
Madarász, Jeannette,
Merkel, Ina,
Palmowski, Jan,
Richthofen, Esther von,
Thomas, Merrilyn,
Wierling, Dorothee,
Wilton, Dan,
HerausgeberIn:
Fulbrook, Mary,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1 The Concept of ‘Normalisation’ and the GDR in Comparative Perspective
  • PART I NORMALISATION AS STABILISATION AND ROUTINISATION? SYSTEMIC PARAMETERS AND THE ROLES OF FUNCTIONARIES
  • Chapter 2 ‘Aggression in Felt Slippers’: Normalisation and the Ideological Struggle in the Context of Détente and Ostpolitik
  • Chapter 3 Economic Politics and Company Culture: The Problem of Routinisation
  • Chapter 4 Rural Functionaries and the Transmission of Agricultural Policy: The Case of Bezirk Erfurt from the 1960s to the 1970s
  • Chapter 5 The ‘Societalisation’ of the State: Sport for the Masses and Popular Music in the GDR
  • Chapter 6 Communication and Compromise: The Prerequisites for Cultural Participation
  • Chapter 7 Learning the Rules: Local Activists and the Heimat
  • PART II NORMALISATION AS INTERNALISATION? CONFORMITY, ‘NORMALITY’, AND ‘PLAYING THE RULES’
  • Chapter 8 Practices of Survival— Ways of Appropriating ‘The Rules’: Reconsidering Approaches to the History of the GDR
  • Chapter 9 The GDR—A Normal Country in the Centre of Europe
  • Chapter 10 How Do the 1929ers and the 1949ers Differ?
  • Chapter 11 Producing the ‘Socialist Personality’? Socialisation, Education, and the Emergence of New Patterns of Behaviour
  • Chapter 12 1977: The GDR’s Most Normal Year?
  • Chapter 13 ‘Normalisation’ in the GDR in Retrospect: East German Perspectives on Their Own Lives
  • Contributors
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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