The Ideal World of Dictatorship

Name: The Ideal World of Dictatorship
Brand: Christoph Links Verlag
SKU: 9783962890391-G
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By Stefan Wolle

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Life in the German Democratic Republic was a permanent balancing act between conformity and revolt. Political pressure and an economy of scarcity coexisted alongside the more pleasant and seemingly idyllic aspects of everyday life. Stefan Wolle takes these contradictory images of a now defunct world and weaves them into a coherent picture. He shows that the meticulously kept death strip at the border and lovingly tended allotment gardens were two sides of the same coin, that dictatorship and daily life necessarily went hand in hand. Wolle tells the history of the last two decades of the GDR from the inside out, as the collective biography of its inhabitants. The result is a thoroughly researched and ambitious scholarly work that doesn't shy away from radical subjectivity. He describes the attempts of East German citizens to create a modicum of intellectual and spiritual freedom, takes stock of the shattered dream of a human, democratic socialism, and reclaims the multifaceted lives of those who lived under Communist Party rule. Originally published in 1998, this seminal history of everyday life in East Germany is now available for the first time in English.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 463
Release Date:: 2019-06-26
Publication Date:: 2019-07-31
Publisher:: Christoph Links Verlag
Languages:: Original: German
ISBN10:: 3962890394
ISBN13:: 9783962890391
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Weight:: 616 g
Height:: 13.4 cm
Width:: 20.8 cm
Thickness:: 3.5 cm
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