Beyond the wall East Germany, 1949-1990
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that exist...
| Main Author: | Hoyer, Katja (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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UK ; USA ; Canada ; Ireland ; Australia ; India ; New Zealand ; South Africa :
Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Trapped between Hitler and Stalin (1918-1945)
- Risen from ruins (1945-1949)
- Birth pangs (1949-1952)
- Building socialism (1952-1961)
- Brick by brick (1961-1965)
- The other Germany (1965-1971)
- Planned miracles (1971-1975)
- Friends and enemies (1976-1981)
- Existential carefreeness (1981-1986)
- Everything takes its socialist course (1987-1990)
- Epilogue: unity.