Socialist Modern East German Everyday Culture and Politics

Name: Socialist Modern East German Everyday Culture and Politics
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ISBN: 9780472069743

ISBN-10: 0472069748

ISBN-13: 9780472069743

Edition: 2008

Authors: Katherine Pence, Paul Betts

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The reunification of Germany in 1989 may have put an end to the experiment in East German communism, but its historical assessment is far from over. Where most of the literature over the past two decades has been driven by the desire to uncover the relationship between power and resistance, complicity and consent, more recent scholarship tends to concentrate on the everyday history of East German citizens.

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 2/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Paul Bettsis Lecturer in Modern German History at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. He is the coeditor ofPain and Prosperity: Reconsidering Twentieth-Century German History(2003).



Introduction



Selves


Homo Munitus: The East German Observed



East Germany's Sexual Evolution



Building Socialism at Home: The Case of East German Interiors



The Travels of Bettina Humpel: One Stasi File and Narratives of State and Self in East Germany



Belonging


Youth as Internal Enemy: Conflicts in the Education Dictatorship of the 1960s



"The Benefits of Health Must Spread Among All": International Solidarity, Health, and Race in the East German Encounter with the Third World



"Asociality" and Modernity: The GDR as a Welfare Dictatorship



The World of Men's Work, East and West



Desires


Shopping, Sewing, Networking, Complaining: Consumer Culture and the Relationship between State and Society in the GDR



Women on the Verge: Consumers between Private Desires and Public Crisis



Alternative Rationalities, Strange Dreams, Absurd Utopias: On Socialist Advertising and Market Research



Re-Presenting the Socialist Modern: Museums and Memory in the Former GDR



Contributors


Index