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Title:

Power and society in the GDR, 1961-1979 : the 'normalisation of rule'? / edited by Mary Fulbrook.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Berghahn Books,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

viii, 339 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Germany (East)--Social life and customs.
Germany (East)--Social conditions.
Social norms
Social stability--Germany (East).
Power (Social sciences)--Germany (East).
Popular culture--Germany (East).
Political culture--Germany (East).
Germany (East)--Politics and government
Germany (East)--Social policy.
Socialism--Germany (East)--Germany (East).

Other Authors:

Fulbrook, Mary, 1951-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-333) and index.

Contents:

The concept of 'normalisation' and the GDR in comparative perspective / Mary Fulbrook -- 'Aggression in felt slippers' : normalisation and the ideological struggle in the context of d©♭tente and ostpolitik / Merrilyn Thomas -- Economic politics and company culture : the problem of routinisation / Jeannette Madar©Łsz -- Rural functionaries and the transmission of agricultural policy : the case of Bezirk Erfurt from the 1960s to the 1970s / George Last -- The 'societalisation' of the state : sport for the masses and popular music in the GDR / Dan Wilton -- Communication and compromise : the prerequisites for cultural participation / Esther von Richthofen -- Learning the rules : local activists and the Heimat / Jan Palmowski -- Practices of survival, ways of appropriating 'the rules' : reconsidering approaches to the history of the GDR / Alf L©ơdtke -- The GDR, a normal country in the centre of Europe / Ina Merkel -- How do the 1929ers and the 1949ers differ? / Dorothee Wierling -- Producing the 'socialist personality'? Socialisation, education, and the emergence of new patterns of behaviour / Angela Brock -- 1977 : the GDR's most normal year? / Mark Allinson -- 'Normalisation' in the GDR in retrospect : East German perspectives on their own lives / Mary Fulbrook.

ISBN:

1845454359 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781845454357 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)255893868

LCCN:

2008053751

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)