Collection of miniature books about the DDR: Bezirk Dresden (1988; 294 p. ; 57 mm.)
Title | Collection of miniature books about the DDR: Bezirk Dresden (1988; 294 p. ; 57 mm.) PDF eBook |
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Release | 1977 |
Genre | Germany (East) |
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DDR Bezirk Dresden
Title | DDR Bezirk Dresden PDF eBook |
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Release | 1989 |
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Dresden 1945
Title | Dresden 1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander McKee |
Publisher | Dutton Adult |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Maps on lining papers. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [327]-329.
Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971–1989
Title | Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971–1989 PDF eBook |
Author | J. Madarász |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2003-08-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1403938369 |
This extensively researched empirical analysis of the GDR in the years 1971-1989 challenges current historical interpretations of GDR history. It focuses on four social groups - youth, women, writers and Christians - to highlight the stability of this socialist society until 1987. The strength of the regime is shown to have been based on a continuously negotiated process of give-and-take involving major parts of the population.
Death in East Germany, 1945-1990
Title | Death in East Germany, 1945-1990 PDF eBook |
Author | Felix Robin Schulz |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2013-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1782380140 |
As the first historical study of East Germany‘s sepulchral culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses to death since the Second World War. Topics include the interrelated areas of the organization and municipalization of the undertaking industry; the steps taken towards a socialist cemetery culture such as issues of design, spatial layout, and commemorative practices; the propagation of cremation as a means of disposal; the wide-spread introduction of anonymous communal areas for the internment of urns; and the emergence of socialist and secular funeral rituals. The author analyses the manifold changes to the system of the disposal of the dead in East Germany—a society that not only had to negotiate the upheaval of military defeat but also urbanization, secularization, a communist regime, and a planned economy. Stressing a comparative approach, the book reveals surprising similarities to the development of Western countries but also highlights the intricate local variations within the GDR and sheds more light on the East German state and its society.
DDR Bezirk Dresden
Title | DDR Bezirk Dresden PDF eBook |
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Release | 1986 |
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The People's Own Landscape
Title | The People's Own Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Moranda |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2014-01-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 047202972X |
East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party aimed to placate a public well aware of the higher standards of living enjoyed elsewhere by encouraging them to participate in outdoor activities and take vacations in the countryside. Scott Moranda considers East Germany’s rural landscapes from the perspective of both technical experts (landscape architects, biologists, and physicians) who hoped to dictate how vacationers interacted with nature, and the vacationers themselves, whose outdoor experience shaped their understanding of environmental change. As authorities eliminated traditional tourist and nature conservation organizations, dissident conservationists demanded better protection of natural spaces. At the same time, many East Germans shared their government’s expectations for economic development that had real consequences for the land. By the 1980s, environmentalists saw themselves as outsiders struggling against the state and a public that had embraced mainstream ideas about limitless economic growth and material pleasures.