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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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Monographs in German History ; volume 33
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Monographs in German history ; v. 33.
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| 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 post-totalitarian East German dictatorship and shedding li. |
| Contents |
State and Minorities in Communist East Germany; CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1 -- STATE, SOCIETY AND MINORITY GROUPS IN THE GDR; CHAPTER 2 -- BETWEEN TORAH AND SICKLE: JEWS IN EAST GERMANY, 1945-1990; CHAPTER 3 -- JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: FROM PERSECUTION TO SURVIVAL; CHAPTER 4 -- ASIAN AND AFRICAN WORKERS IN THE NICHES OF SOCIETY; CHAPTER 5 -- FOOTBALL FANS, HOOLIGANS AND THE STATE; CHAPTER 6 -- SUB-CULTURES: PUNKS, GOTHS AND HEAVY METALLERS; CHAPTER 7 -- SKINHEADS AND RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM IN AN ANTI-FASCIST STATE; CHAPTER 8 -- CONCLUSION: MINORITIES, PRESENT AND PAST; REFERENCES; INDEX. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Honecker, Erich.
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Authority -- Social aspects -- Germany (East) -- History.
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Communism -- Social aspects -- Germany (East) -- History.
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Germany (East) -- Ethnic relations.
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Germany (East) -- Politics and government.
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Germany (East) -- Social conditions.
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Germany (East) -- Social policy.
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Minorities -- Germany (East) -- Social conditions.
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Minorities -- Government policy -- Germany (East) -- History.
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Political culture -- Germany (East) -- History.
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History.
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Social sciences.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Laporte, Norman, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dennis, Mike, 1940- State and minorities in communist East Germany. New York : Berghahn Books, 2011 9780857451958 (DLC) 2011018002 (OCoLC)704378366 |
| ISBN |
9780857451965 |
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0857451960 |
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9780857451958 (hbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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