Dictatorship As Experience

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ISBN: 9781571811813 | 1571811818
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Copyright: 9/1/1999

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A decade after the collapse of communism, this volume presents a historical reflection on the perplexing nature of the East German dictatorship. In contrast to most political rhetoric, it seeks to establish a middle ground between totalitarianism theory, stressing the repressive features of the SED-regime, and apologetics of the socialist experiment, emphasizing the normalcy of daily lives.

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Beyond Uniformity: The Challenge of Historicizing the GDR

(14)

Konrad H. Jarausch

The Theoretical Problem of Dictatorship

The GDR: A Special Kind of Modern Dictatorship

(10)

Jurgen Kocka

Modernization and Modernization Blockages in GDR Society

(20)

Detlef Pollack

Care and Coercion: The GDR as Welfare Dictatorship

(26)

Konrad H. Jarausch

Mechanisms of Political Repression

From Dismantling to Currency Reform: External Origins of the Dictatorship, 1943--1948

(18)

Jochen Laufer

Foreign Influences on the Dictatorial Development of the GDR, 1949--1955

(18)

Michael Lemke

Repression and Tolerance as Methods of Rule in Communist Societies

109

(16)

Mario Keßler

Thomas Klein

Means of Social Control

Creating State Socialist Governmance: The Case of the Deutsche Volkspolizei

125

(18)

Thomas Lindenberger

Food Supply in a Planned Economy: SED Nutrition Policy between Crisis Response and Popular Needs

143

(20)

Burghard Ciesla

Patrice G. Poutrus

The Myth of Female Emancipation: Contradictions in Women's Lives

163

(14)

Leonore Ansorg

Renate Hurtgen

The Socialist Glass Ceiling: Limits to Female Careers

177

(18)

Dagmar Langenhan

Sabine Roß

Cultural Dimensions of Domination

Dictatorship as Discourse: Cultural Perspectives on SED Legitimacy

195

(18)

Martin Sabrow

The Fettered Media: Controlling Public Debate

213

(28)

Simone Barck

Christoph Classen

Thomas Heimann

Criticism and Censorship: Negotiating Cabaret Performance and Book Production

241

(24)

Sylvia Klotzer

Siegfried Lokatis

The Pivotal Cadres: Leadership Styles and Self-Images of GDR-Elites

265

(20)

Arnd Bauerkamper

Jurgen Danyel

Temporal Transformations

Stagnation or Change? Transformations of the Workplace in the GDR

285

(22)

Peter Hubner

The Hitler Youth Generation in the GDR: Insecurities, Ambitions and Dilemmas

307

(18)

Dorothee Wierling

Reforming Socalism? The Changing of the Guard from Ulbricht to Honecker during the 1960s

325

(16)

Monika Kaiser

Mobility and Blockage during the 1970s

341

(22)

Ralph Jessen

Postscript

Rethinking the Second German Dictatorship

363

(10)

Christoph Kleßmann

Selected Bibliography

373

(6)

Notes on Contributors

379

(4)

Index

383

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