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Author Dennis, Mike, 1940- author.

Title State and Minorities in Communist East Germany.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (254 pages).
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Series Monographs in German History ; volume 33
Monographs in German history ; v. 33.
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.
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Subject Honecker, Erich.
Honecker, Erich.
Authority -- Social aspects -- Germany (East) -- History.
Authority -- Social aspects.
Germany (East)
History.
Authority.
Communism -- Social aspects -- Germany (East) -- History.
Communism -- Social aspects.
Communism.
Germany (East) -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Germany (East) -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Germany (East) -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Germany (East) -- Social policy.
Social policy.
Minorities -- Germany (East) -- Social conditions.
Minorities.
Minorities -- Government policy -- Germany (East) -- History.
Minorities -- Government policy.
Political culture -- Germany (East) -- History.
Political culture.
History.
Social sciences.
Social sciences.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Laporte, Norman, author.
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
0857451960
9780857451958 (hardback ; acid-free paper)