Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979: The 'Normalisation of Rule'?
348Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979: The 'Normalisation of Rule'?
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ISBN-13: | 9781782381013 |
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Publisher: | Berghahn Books, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 07/01/2013 |
Pages: | 348 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.72(d) |
About the Author
Educated at Cambridge and Harvard, Professor Mary Fulbrook is Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at UCL (University College London) and a Fellow of the British Academy.She is the author of numerous books, including: overviews such as A Concise History of Germany and A History of Germany 1918-2008: The Divided Nation; as well as seminal works on the GDR, such as Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR and The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker, as well as Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships; and works on Historical Theory and German National Identity after the Holocaust. Her most recent book is the prize-winning A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Concept of ‘Normalisation’ and the GDR in Comparative Perspective Mary Fulbrook
PART I: NORMALISATION AS STABILISATION AND ROUTINISATION? SYSTEMIC PARAMETERS AND THE ROLES OF FUNCTIONARIES
Chapter 1. ‘Aggression in Felt Slippers’: Normalisation and Western Covert Activities in the Context of Détente and Ostpolitik Merrilyn Thomas
Chapter 2. Economic Politics and Company Culture: The Problem of Routinisation Jeannette Madarász
Chapter 3. The Professionalisation of Agriculture: Functionaries on the Land George Last
Chapter 4. The Societalisation of the State: Sport for the Masses and Popular Music Dan Wilton
Chapter 5. Communication and Compromise: The Prerequisites for Cultural Participation Esther von Richthofen
Chapter 6. Local Functionaries and Renegotiations of Heimat Jan Palmowski
PART II: NORMALISATION AS INTERNALISATION? CONFORMITY, ‘NORMALITY’ AND ‘PLAYING THE RULES’
Chapter 7. Practices of Survival - Ways of Appropriating ‘the Rules’: Reconsidering Approaches to the History of the GDR Alf Lüdtke
Chapter 8. The GDR – A Perfectly Normal Country, in the Centre of Europe Ina Merkel
Chapter 9. How Do the 1929ers and the 1949ers Differ? Dorothee Wierling
Chapter 10. Producing the ‘Socialist Personality’? Socialisation, Education and the Emergence of New Patterns of Behaviour Angela Brock
Chatper 11. 1977: The Most Normal Year of the GDR? Mark Allinson
Notes on contributors Bibliography Index