Becoming East Germans : socialist structures and sensibilities after Hitler

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Becoming East Germans : socialist structures and sensibilities after Hitler

Title remainder

socialist structures and sensibilities after Hitler

Statement of responsibility

edited by Mary Fulbrook and Andrew I. Port

Creator

• Fulbrook, Mary, 1951-

Contributor

• Port, Andrew I.

Editor

• Fulbrook, Mary, 1951-
• Port, Andrew I.

Subject

• Germany (East) -- Social conditions
• Germany (East) -- Social policy
• Medical policy -- Germany (East)
• Public health -- Germany (East)
• Socialism -- Germany (East) -- History
• Socialism and culture -- Germany (East)
• Germany (East) -- Cultural policy

Language

eng

Summary

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 <U+0127> � 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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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Specktrum : publications of the German Studies Association

Series volume

6