Everyday subversion
Subtitle: from joking to revolting in the German Democratic Republic
By: Kerry Kathleen Riley
Series: Rhetoric and public affairs series
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780870138010
Subjects: Social movements -- Germany (East); Subversive activities -- Germany (East); Socialism and rhetoric -- Germany (East); Germany (East) -- History; Germany -- History -- Unification, 1990
Description: "This book traces the evolution of grassroots social movement in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) and reveals the democratically spirited, subversive forms of communication that were practiced behind the Wall before it fell on November 9, 1989. From the political jokes that were shared in private, to the informational events, small group work, underground publications, and weekly "peace prayers" that were sheltered by Evangelical Lutheran churches, to the demonstrations of 1989, to the onslaught of expose work after the fall of the Wall, East Germans resisted and rebelled against the state in a number of humble but rhetorically brilliant ways."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-368) and index