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Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979 - The 'Normalisation of Rule'? (Paperback, New)
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Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979 - The 'Normalisation of Rule'? (Paperback, New)
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The communist German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949 in the
Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany is, for many people,
epitomized by the Berlin Wall; Soviet tanks and surveillance by the
secret security police, the Stasi, appear to be central. But is
this really all there is to the GDR(1)s history? How did people
come to terms with their situation and make new lives behind the
Wall? When the social history of the GDR in the 1960s and 1970s is
explored, new patterns become evident. A fragile stability emerged
in a period characterized by 'consumer socialism', international
recognition and detente. Growing participation in the
micro-structures of power, and conformity to the unwritten rules of
an increasingly predictable system, suggest increasing
accommodation to dominant norms and conceptions of socialist
'normality'. By exploring the ways in which lower-level
functionaries and people at the grass roots contributed to the
formation and transformation of the GDR from industry and
agriculture, through popular sport and cultural life, to the
passage of generations and varieties of social experience the
contributors collectively develop a more complex approach to the
history of East Germany.
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