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The People's State by Mary Fulbrook, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Mary Fulbrook

Current price: $60.91
The People's State by Mary Fulbrook, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The People's State by Mary Fulbrook, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

The People's State by Mary Fulbrook, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Mary Fulbrook

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An insight into the experience of life within the East German dictatorship What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of political repression and corruption, do not tell the whole story. After the unification of Germany in 1990 many East Germans remembered their lives as interesting, varied, and full of educational, career, and leisure opportunities: in many ways “perfectly ordinary lives."Using the rich resources of the newly-opened GDR archives, Mary Fulbrook investigates these conflicting narratives. She explores the transformation of East German society from the ruins of Hitler’s Third Reich to a modernizing industrial state. She examines changing conceptions of normality within an authoritarian political system, and provides extraordinary insights into the ways in which individuals perceived their rights and actively sought to shape their own lives. Replacing the simplistic black-and-white concept of “totalitarianism" by the notion of a “participatory dictatorship," this book seeks to reinstate the East German people as actors in their own history. | The People's State by Mary Fulbrook, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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