'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly
human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand
post-World War II Europe' Julia Boyd 'One of the best young
historians writing in English today. . . Well-researched,
well-written and profoundly insightful, Beyond the Wall explodes
many of the lazy Western cliches about East Germany' Andrew Roberts
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East
Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of
the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR
presented a radically different German identity to anything that
had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist
solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was
a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics. In
Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a
kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with
the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she
traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under
the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive
German fashion. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, to
the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and on to the creaking
foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid
oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a
rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more
dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted in the West.
Powerfully told, and drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen
interviews, letters and records, this is the definitive history of
the other Germany, the one beyond the Wall.
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