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Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities After Hitler

Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities After Hitler

Port, Andrew I.
Fulbrook, Mary

Hardcover

Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association, Book 6

General World HistoryGerman History

ISBN10: 0857459740
ISBN13: 9780857459749
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Sep 1 2013
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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