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Becoming East German - Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler (Paperback)
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Becoming East German - Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler (Paperback)
Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
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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 - 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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