Title: The break-up of Communism in East Germany and Eastern Europe
First published: 1999
Description: This book presents a novel understanding of the break-up of communist hegemony in East Germany and Eastern Europe. Based on comparative case-studies, it argues that identity politics is a particular invention of communist rule, producing apolitical citizens.

Focusing upon identity politics helps us to understand better the long-term stability of communist hegemony, its sudden collapse, the difficulties of transforming communist societies into liberal democracies and the unexpected revival of ethnic, nationalist and cultural conflicts in post-communist Eastern Europe.
Subjects: Politics and government, Post-communism, Europe, eastern, politics and government, 1989-, Germany, politics and government, 1945-1990, Post-communism, europe, eastern
Places: Eastern Europe, Germany (East)
Time periods: 1989-1990, 1989-
LC classification: DJK51 .K86 1999