People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker Contributor(s): Fulbrook, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300144245 ISBN-13: 9780300144246 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $45.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Germany - History | Social History |
Dewey: 943.108 |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 378 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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." |