Power and society in the GDR, 1961-1979
Subtitle: the "normalisation of rule"?
By: edited by Mary Fulbrook.
Contributors: Fulbrook, Mary, 1951-
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845454357
Subjects: Social norms; Social stability -- Germany (East); Power (Social sciences) -- Germany (East); Popular culture -- Germany (East); Political culture -- Germany (East); Socialism -- Germany (East); Germany (East) -- Social life and customs; Germany (East) -- Social conditions; Germany (East) -- Politics and government; Germany (East) -- Social policy
Other titles: Power and society in the German Democratic Republic, 1961-1979
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The concept of "normalisation" and the GDR in comparative perspective / Mary Fulbrook; title: "Aggression in felt slippers" : normalisation and the ideological struggle in the context of détente and Ostpolitik / Merrilyn Thomas; title: Economic politics and company culture : the problem of routinisation / Jeannette Madarász; title: Rural functionaries and the transmission of agricultural policy : the case of Bezirk Erfurt from the 1960s to the 1970s / George Last; title: The societalisation of the state : sport for the masses and popular music in the GDR / Daniel Wilton; title: Communication and compromise : the prerequisites for cultural participation / Esther von Richthofen; title: Learning the rules : local activists and the Heimat / Jan Palmowski; title: Practices of survival; ways of appropriating "the rules" : reconsidering approaches to the history of the GDR / Alf Lodtke; title: The GDR; a normal country in the centre of Europe / Ina Merkel; title: How do the 1929ers and the 1949ers differ? / Dorothee Wierling; title: Producing the "socialist personality"? Socialisation, education, and the emergence of new patterns of behaviour / Angela Brock; title: 1977; the GDR's most normal year? / Mark Allinson; title: "Normalisation" in the GDR in retrospect : East German perspectives on their own lives / Mary Fulbrook.