German Socialism

Author : Eli Rubin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : David E. Barclay,Eric D. Weitz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0857457195

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Between Reform and Revolution by David E. Barclay,Eric D. Weitz Pdf

The powerful impact of Socialism and Communism on modern German history is the theme which is explored by the contributors to this volume. Whereas previous investigations have tended to focus on political, intellectual and biographical aspects, this book captures, for the first time, the methodological and thematic diversity and richness of current work on the history of the German working class and the political movements that emerged from it. Based on original contributions from U.S., British, and German scholars, this collection address a wide range of themes and problems.

Author : Matthew D. Mingus
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0815635508

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Remapping Modern Germany after National Socialism, 1945-1961 by Matthew D. Mingus Pdf

Located in the often-contentious center of the European continent, German territory has regularly served as a primary tool through which to understand and study Germany’s economic, cultural, and political development. Many German geographers throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became deeply invested in geopolitical determinism—the idea that a nation’s territorial holdings (or losses) dictate every other aspect of its existence. Taking this as his premise, Mingus focuses on the use of maps as mediums through which the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union sought to reshape German national identity after the Second World War. As important as maps and the study of geography have been to the field of European history, few scholars have looked at the postwar development of occupied Germany through the lens of the map—the most effective means to orient German citizens ontologically within a clearly and purposefully delineated spatial framework. Mingus traces the institutions and individuals involved in the massive cartographic overhaul of postwar Germany. In doing so, he explores not only the causes and methods behind the production and reproduction of Germany’s mapped space but also the very real consequences of this practice.

Author : Gerd Horten
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789207347

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Don't Need No Thought Control by Gerd Horten Pdf

The fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state. Meanwhile, comparatively little attention has been paid to the cultural dimension of these dramatic events, particularly the role played by Western mass media and consumer culture. With a focus on the 1970s and 1980s, Don’t Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay of popular unrest, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policies under Erich Honecker. It shows how the widespread influence of (and public demands for) Western cultural products forced GDR leaders into a series of grudging accommodations that undermined state power to a hitherto underappreciated extent.

Author : William Harbutt Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Socialism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047377507

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German Socialism and Ferdinand Lassalle by William Harbutt Dawson Pdf

Author : Richard Breitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015004984012

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German Socialism and Weimar Democracy by Richard Breitman Pdf

In this first analysis in English of the relationship of the German Social Democratic party to the Weimar Republic, Breitman stresses the party's conflicting loyalties to both Marxist traditions and democratic principles. He explains how and why an evolutionary socialist strategy failed to promote or to prevent the rise of Nazism. The non socialist parties showed no interest in meeting the SPD halfway, and there was internal dissent over coalition with other parties. Originally published in 1981. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Anna Holian
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472117802

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Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism by Anna Holian Pdf

In May of 1945, there were more than eight million “displaced persons” (or DPs) in Germany—recently liberated foreign workers, concentration camp prisoners, and prisoners of war from all of Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as eastern Europeans who had fled west before the advancing Red Army. Although most of them quickly returned home, it soon became clear that large numbers of eastern European DPs could or would not do so. Focusing on Bavaria, in the heart of the American occupation zone, Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism examines the cultural and political worlds that four groups of displaced persons—Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Jewish—created in Germany during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The volume investigates the development of refugee communities and how divergent interpretations of National Socialism and Soviet Communism defined these displaced groups. Combining German and eastern European history, Anna Holian draws on a rich array of sources in cultural and political history and engages the broader literature on displacement in the fields of anthropology, sociology, political theory, and cultural studies. Her book will interest students and scholars of German, eastern European, and Jewish history; migration and refugees; and human rights.

Author : Kristie Macrakis,Dieter Hoffmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 067479477X

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Science Under Socialism by Kristie Macrakis,Dieter Hoffmann Pdf

An international cast of contributors (Americans, former East Germans, and former West Germans) take the reader on a journey from the view of science policymakers, to the construction of "socialist" institutions for science, to the role of espionage in technology transfer, to the social and political context of the chemical industry, engineers, nuclear power, biology, computers, and finally the career trajectories of scientists through the vicissitudes of twentieth-century German history."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Richard Theodore Ely
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Socialism
ISBN : UOM:39015002636754

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French and German Socialism in Modern Times by Richard Theodore Ely Pdf

Author : Christina Schwenkel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012603

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Building Socialism by Christina Schwenkel Pdf

Following a decade of U.S. bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism Christina Schwenkel examines the utopian visions of an expert group of Vietnamese and East German urban planners who sought to transform the devastated industrial town of Vinh into a model socialist city. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in Vietnam and Germany with architects, engineers, construction workers, and tenants in Vinh’s mass housing complex, Schwenkel explores the material and affective dimensions of urban possibility and the quick fall of Vinh’s new built environment into unplanned obsolescence. She analyzes the tensions between aspirational infrastructure and postwar uncertainty to show how design models and practices that circulated between the socialist North and the decolonizing South underwent significant modification to accommodate alternative cultural logics and ideas about urban futurity. By documenting the building of Vietnam’s first planned city and its aftermath of decay and repurposing, Schwenkel argues that underlying the ambivalent and often unpredictable responses to modernist architectural forms were anxieties about modernity and the future of socialism itself.

Author : Frank Mecklenburg,Manfred Stassen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0826403239

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German Essays on Socialism in the Nineteenth Century by Frank Mecklenburg,Manfred Stassen Pdf

This volume brings together the key theoretical and historical writings of 19th-century German socialist thought. It includes: Marx and Engels from The Communist Manifesto; Engels, "The Labor Associations in the 1860s," and "Women and Socialism and Anti-Semitism and Social Democracy;" plus many others.

Author : William Harbutt Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Socialism
ISBN : UOM:39015012062512

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German Socialism and Ferdinand Lassalle by William Harbutt Dawson Pdf

Author : Christine Lattek
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Germans
ISBN : 0714651001

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Revolutionary Refugees by Christine Lattek Pdf

Filling an important gap in our understanding of the growth of early German socialism, this book is the first to combine the two crucial aspects of the study: socialist political theory and social and cultural environments. An essential student read.

Author : Martin Broszat
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015000691124

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German National Socialism, 1919-1945 by Martin Broszat Pdf

Author : William H. F. Altman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739177693

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The German Stranger by William H. F. Altman Pdf

The German Stranger provides a guide to Leo Strauss that situates his thought in the context of National Socialism; by destroying any middle ground between 'Athens' and 'Jerusalem,' Strauss undermined modernity's secular bulwark against political theology. Once National Socialism is understood as an atheistic religion re-enacted by post-Revelation 'philosophers,' the German avatar of Plato's Athenian Stranger can be recognized as its principal theoretician.