German Democratic Republic

Author : Martin McCauley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349184033

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The German Democratic Republic since 1945 by Martin McCauley Pdf

The GDR is the most successful (in terms of living standards) socialist state but one of the least loved. Yet the GDR has formidable achievements to list, especially in education and health. On the other hand her feeling of insecurity has led to a creeping militarisation of society. The GDR provides communist states in the Third World with military training and expertise; she also trains security and police cadres. Hence the impact is being felt outside Europe. Does the GDR now present the face of the ugly German to the non-communist world? Her development is worthy of attention. As the Soviet Union's closest ally in Eastern Europe she may play a more important role there in the future as economic growth slows and tensions rise. She has, however, problems of her own which will require much hard work to resolve. Nevertheless she is the most stable socialist state in Eastern Europe at present. Will this continue? Will mass discontent mount as living standards stagnate? Just how important will the West German response be? The GDR is torn between East and West. If she is to weather the economic storms she requires closer links with West Germany and the West but politically and militarily she needs a closer relationship with the Soviet Union. '... competent and wide-ranging, covering not only political history but also the economy, education, culture, the position of women and foreign policy.' Leslie Holmes, Soviet Studies '... the main strength of this work is that it provides a mass of facts and figures in the main text and is yet eminently readable.' Roger Woods, Slavonic Review

Author : D. Clarke,U. Wölfel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230349698

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Remembering the German Democratic Republic by D. Clarke,U. Wölfel Pdf

Memories of and attitudes to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, within contemporary Germany are characterized by their variety and complexity, whilst the debate over how to remember the GDR tells us a lot about how Germans see themselves and their future. This volume provides a range of international perspectives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Germany (East)
ISBN : WISC:89014770986

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The German Democratic Republic by Anonim Pdf

Author : Heather Gumbert
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472119196

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Envisioning Socialism by Heather Gumbert Pdf

The first examination in English of East German television during the early Cold War

Author : Henry Krisch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000301847

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The German Democratic Republic by Henry Krisch Pdf

This important new overview of the German Democratic Republic focuses on the country’s search for identity and legitimacy throughout its history. Dr. Henry Krisch analyzes major aspects of East German life—political, economic, cultural, and societal—to answer the fundamental question of the nature of the GDR. Arguing that East Germany has been shaped by history to an unusual degree, he explores the country’s historical background, including the Soviet Zone, the origins of the GDR, and the leadership of Ulbricht and Honecker, and examines the role and structure of the party, state, and military and security forces. The main emphasis of this book, however, is upon current problems and on likely responses to them in the near future. Issues such as the viability of communist politics in a technologically advanced society, the relationship of the GDR to a common German heritage and a competing West German state, and the country’s role within the Soviet alliance system are examined in detail, and current social concerns, including the peace movement, cultural trends, the role of women and youth, and the prime importance of sports, are discussed.

Author : D. Clarke,U. Wölfel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230349698

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Remembering the German Democratic Republic by D. Clarke,U. Wölfel Pdf

Memories of and attitudes to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, within contemporary Germany are characterized by their variety and complexity, whilst the debate over how to remember the GDR tells us a lot about how Germans see themselves and their future. This volume provides a range of international perspectives.

Author : Mike Dennis
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049657151

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The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1990 by Mike Dennis Pdf

This new book investigates communist rule in East Germany from the end of World War II to its rapid collapse after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using newly available archival material, the early chapters trace the emergence of the GDR in 1949 from out of chrysalis of the Soviet zone of occupation. Later chapters cover the dramatic episodes of the 1953 uprising against Soviet dominance and the buildling of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The subsequent stabilization of the GDR and the establishment of an uneasy compromise between the ruling elites and the population in the later 1960s and 1970s are explained with reference to a range of internal social, economic and political factors. The disintegration of the regime in 1989, despite the comprehensive system of surveillance operated by the infamous Stasi, is explained in the light of * the chronic weakness of Gorbachev's Soviet Union * the bravery of the protestors * the enduring appeal of West Germany's social market economy and political pluralism.This clear and comprehensive survey marshals secondary and original primary sources in order to give a unique insight into the GDR's struggles and achievements.Mike Dennis is Professor of Modern History, University of Wolverhampton. His many publications include `The German Democratic Republic' (1988).

Author : Andrew I. Port
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521866514

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Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic by Andrew I. Port Pdf

This book explores the reasons why the post-World War II Communist regime in East Germany outlasted both the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich.

Author : Mary Fulbrook,Andrew I. Port
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857459756

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Becoming East German by Mary Fulbrook,Andrew I. Port Pdf

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 : Erich Honecker
Publisher : New York : International Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035503353

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The German Democratic Republic, Pillar of Peace and Socialism by Erich Honecker Pdf

Author : Feiwel Kupferberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351324700

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The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic by Feiwel Kupferberg Pdf

Most public debate on reunited Germany has emphasized economic issues such as the collapse of East German industry, mass unemployment, career difficulties, and differences in wages and living standards. The overwhelming difficulty resulting from reunification, however, is not persisting economic differences but the internal cultural divide between East and West Germans, one based upon different moral values in the two Germanies. The invisible wall that has replaced the previous, highly visible territorial division of the German nation is rooted in issues of the past-the Nazi past as well as the German Democratic Republic past. In emphasizing economic differences, the media and academics have avoided dealing with typically German cultural traits. These include the psychological posture of West Germany, which emphasized not differences between East and West but the break with Germany's Nazi past. The adversarial posture of certain professional groups in East Germany towards the liberal and democratic values of West Germany have also been an obstacle. Reviewing the problems accompanying reunification, chapter 1 explores German culture and history and the moral lessons evolved from the Nazi past. Chapter 2 focuses on the East-West mindset and how differences in attitude affect efforts to adapt to reunification. Chapter 3 discusses the simulated break with Nazi Germany in the German Democratic Republic. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 analyze the roots of the adversary posture of the professional groups in East Germany towards the values of the Berlin Republic. Chapter 7 demonstrates the strong presence of inherited, typically German cultural traits among East Germans, such as a lack of individualism, suspicion of strangers, and obedience to authority. Chapter 8 documents the extent to which a right-wing extremist culture has remained latent in Eastern Germany. Chapter 9 documents the extent to which moral reasoning in the GDR relieves the individual of any kind of responsibility for the actions of the state, reproducing the way ordinary Germans rationalized their participation in the Nazi regime immediately after World War II. Chapter 10 concludes with an overview of the historical and sociological factors revolving around the discussion of Nazi Germany, the GDR and inner unification.This volume will be important for historians, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and a general public interested in Germany's reunification.

Author : Peter Grieder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230356863

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The German Democratic Republic by Peter Grieder Pdf

A clear, concise and thought-provoking introduction to the history of East Germany which engages critically with key debates and advances new interpretations of the origins, development and demise of the GDR. Peter Grieder also offers an original conceptualization of the GDR as a totalitarian welfare state.

Author : Mike Dennis
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081789831

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German Democratic Republic by Mike Dennis Pdf

Author : Eli Rubin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469606774

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Synthetic Socialism by Eli Rubin Pdf

Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. Synthetic Socialism explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple material: plastic. Rubin investigates the connections between the communist government, its Bauhaus-influenced designers, its retooled postwar chemical industry, and its general consumer population. He argues that East Germany was neither a totalitarian state nor a niche society but rather a society shaped by the confluence of unique economic and political circumstances interacting with the concerns of ordinary citizens. To East Germans, Rubin says, plastic was a high-technology material, a symbol of socialism's scientific and economic superiority over capitalism. Most of all, the state and its designers argued, plastic goods were of a particularly special quality, not to be thrown away like products of the wasteful West. Rubin demonstrates that this argument was accepted by the mainstream of East German society, for whom the modern, socialist dimension of a plastics-based everyday life had a deep resonance.

Author : German Democratic Republic
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066445003

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Constitution of the German Democratic Republic by German Democratic Republic Pdf

Post-WWII the constitution of the German Republic was accepted in 1949 after much discussion. The People's Council then became the People's Chamber of the East German Republic, and the People's Congress was reformed into the National Front political bloc. This document sets out what was agreed at signing and follows a usual pattern of explanation of rights and responsibilities.