Author
Other titles
- Translation: East German society from Hitler to Honecker
Published
- New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press 2005
Physical description
xiv, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN
- 9780300108842 (hbk.)
- 0300108842 (hbk.)
Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [330]-338) and index.
- Other format: Also available online.
Contents
- 1. Introduction : the people's paradox -- I: Visions of the good society (and how they were not realised in practice) -- 2. The East German social revolutions : violence, utopia and consumer socialism -- 3. Citizens at home -- 4. Citizens at play : leisure -- 5. Matters of life and death -- 6. Youth -- 7. Gender -- II: Class in a classless society: power, work and social inequality -- 8. The withering away of the state? Ruling elites -- 9. Cultural capital : from bourgeoisie to socialist intelligentsia -- 10. The un-making of the German working class (and peasantry) -- III: the participatory dictatorship -- 11. The honeycomb state : the benign and malign diffusion of power -- 12. In place of a public sphere? 'Discussion', cultures and subcultures -- 13. The people's own voices? The culture of complaint and the privatisation of protest.
Subject
- Socialism and culture Germany (East)
- Socialism and youth Germany (East)
- Socialism and society.
- Socialism and society.
- Socialism and culture Germany (East)
- Germany History 1945-1990.
- Communism and society.
- Socialism Germany (East).
- Socialism and youth Germany (East)
- Cold War.
- Germany History 20th century.
- Politics and government.
- Social conditions.
- Socialism and culture.
- Socialism and society.
- Socialism and youth.
- Maatschappij.
- Gesellschaft.
- Alltagskultur.
- Germany (East) Social conditions.
- Germany (East) Social conditions.
- Germany (East) Politics and government.
- Germany (East) History.
- Germany (East) Social life and customs.
- Allemagne (Est) Conditions sociales.
- Germany (East) History.
- Germany (East) Politics and government.
- Germany (East)
- Deutschland <DDR>
- 4.415.
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Language
- English
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Summary
- Replacing the simplistic black-and-white concept of 'totalitarianism' by the notion of a 'participatory dictatorship', this book seeks to reinstate the East German people as actors in their own history.
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