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The Freest Country in the World: East Germany's Final Year in Culture and Memory

The Freest Country in the World: East Germany's Final Year in Culture and Memory

Brockmann, Stephen

Paperback

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Book 236

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 12, 2027

ISBN10: 1640144072
ISBN13: 9781640144071
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Published: Jan 12 2027
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
Shows that while the GDR is generally seen as - and mostly was - an oppressive and unfree country, from late 1989 until autumn 1990 it was the freest country in the world the dictatorship had disappeared while the welfare system remained.

Stephen Brockmann's new book explores the year 1989/1990 in East Germany, arguing that while the GDR is generally seen as - and was for most of its forty years - an oppressive and unfree country, from autumn 1989 until the autumn of 1990 it was the freest country in the world, since the dictatorship had disappeared while the welfare system remained. That such freedom existed in the last months of the GDR and was a result of the actions of East Germans themselves has been obscured, Brockmann shows, by the now-standard description of the collapse of the GDR and the reunification of Germany as a triumph of Western democracy and capitalism.

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