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State and minorities in communist East Germany / Mike Dennis and Norman LaPorte.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dennis, Mike, 1940-
- Series:
- Monographs in German history ; v. 33.
- Monographs in German history ; v. 33
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Honecker, Erich.
- Minorities--Germany (East)--Social conditions.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--Government policy--Germany (East)--History.
- Communism--Social aspects--Germany (East)--History.
- Communism.
- Authority--Social aspects--Germany (East)--History.
- Authority.
- Political culture--Germany (East)--History.
- Political culture.
- Germany (East)--Social conditions.
- Germany (East).
- Germany (East)--Ethnic relations.
- Germany (East)--Politics and government.
- Germany (East)--Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 not
- Contents:
- State, society, and minority groups in the GDR / Mike Dennis and Norman Laporte
- Between Torah and sickle : Jews in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Mike Dennis
- Jehovah's Witnesses : from persecution to survival / Mike Dennis
- Asian and African workers in the niches of society / Mike Dennis
- Football fans, hooligans, and the state / Mike Dennis
- Sub-cultures : punks, goths, and heavy metallers / Mike Dennis and Norman Laporte
- Skinheads and right extremism in an anti-fascist state / Norman Laporte
- Conclusion / Mike Dennis.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-390-2
- 1-78238-104-X
- 0-85745-196-0
- OCLC:
- 751694513
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