Mike Dennis, Norman Laporte

State and Minorities in Communist East Germany (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, 'guest' workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich Honecker's rule over the communist system. It explores how they were able to resist persecution and surveillance by instruments of the state, thus illustrating the limits on the power of the East German dictatorship and shedding light on the notion of authority as social practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857451965
• Artikelnr.: 39598321

Autorenporträt

Mike Dennis is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of several monographs on the GDR, including Social and Economic Modernization in Eastern Germany from Honecker to Kohl (Pinter, 1993) and The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990 (Longman, 2000). He has co-edited numerous books on modern Germany, notably, with D. Steinert, Deutschland 1945-1990 (Wochenschau Verlag, 2005), and is currently engaged on a research project on elite sport in the GDR.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Preface
Chapter 1. State, Society and Minority Groups in the GDR
Mike Dennis and Norman Laporte
Chapter 2. Between Torah and Sickle: Jews in East Germany, 1945-1990
Mike Dennis
Chapter 3. Jehovah's Witnesses: From Persecution to Survival
Mike Dennis
Chapter 4.  Asian and African Workers in the Niches of Society
Mike Dennis
Chapter 5. Football Fans, Hooligans and the State
Mike Dennis
Chapter 6. Sub-cultures: Punks, Goths and Heavy Metallers
Mike Dennis and Norman Laporte
Chapter 7. Skinheads and Right Extremism in an Anti-fascist State
Norman Laporte
Conclusion
Mike Dennis
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index