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The rise and fall of the German Democratic Republic
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The rise and fall of the German Democratic Republic / Feiwel Kupferberg.
ISBN
1412800307
9781412800303
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 228 pages)
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Kupferberg, Feiwel, 1946- Rise and fall of the German Democratic Republic. New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©2002
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-216) and index.
Contents
Introduction: cultural studies, German history, and moral lessons
Unmanaged past: rethinking the inner wall in reunited Germany
Victors of history: the smokescreen of antifascism
Workers' and peasants' state: the myth of the Marxist utopia
Die Wende: exit, voice, and collapse
Dismantling of the GDR: saving careers and legitimizing biographies
Elbow Society: East German group mentality and cultural alienation
Xenophobia and right-wing extremism
When the world was simple: GDR nostalgia
a return to innocence
Conclusion: Nazi Germany, the GDR, and inner unification.
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