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

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Fulbrook, Mary, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Physical Description:

viii, 339 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Power and society in the German Democratic Republic, 1961-1979

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

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 détente and ostpolitik / Merrilyn Thomas
• Economic politics and company culture : the problem of routinisation / Jeannette Madarász
• 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 Lüdtke
• 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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

• 9781845454357
• 1845454359

OCLC:

255893868