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What Remains? - The Dialectical Identities of Eastern Germans (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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What Remains? - The Dialectical Identities of Eastern Germans (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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This book tells the story of the German Democratic Republic from
“the inside out,” using the lens of generational change to
deconstruct an intriguing array of social identities that had
little to do with the “official GDR” version authoritarian
rulers regularly sought to impose on their citizens. The author
compares the “identities” of five societal subgroups (GDR
writers and intellectuals; pastors and
dissidents; women; youth; and working-class men), exploring
the policies defining their lives and status before/during/after
the 1989 Wende, as well as the diverging “exit, voice
and loyalty” dilemmas encountered by each. The
“dialectical” components treated in this work center on the
extent to which eastern identities were lost, found and
reconfigured across three generations, from 1949 to 1989, from 1990
to 2005, then up to 2020. It explores how the existence of a
separate East German state and the socialization processes imposed
on each subculture has not only complicated the search for national
unity since 1990 but also -- perhaps more controversially—invoked
new challenges directly related to ongoing East-West structural
disparities since unification and the treatment of eastern Germans
by often more privileged western Germans.
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