Behind the Berlin Wall - East Germany and the Frontiers of Power

Zusatztext provide[s] a fascinating and astute insight into the workings of East German communism. Informationen zum Autor Patrick Major studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate at the University of Oxford. He came to know East Berlin during a year living in West Berlin in 1985-86, and was one of the first western researchers allowed into the East German communist party's archives after the fall of the wall in February 1990, for a PhD on The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956 (OUP, 1997) which won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize. Klappentext On 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Patrick Major explores how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, 'caught out' by Sunday the Thirteenth. Zusammenfassung On 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Patrick Major explores how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, 'caught out' by Sunday the Thirteenth. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction Part I: Before the Wall 1945-61 2: East Germany's Dual Crisis: Politics and Economics on the Eve of the Wall 3: Crossing the Line: Republikflucht between Defection and Migration 4: Holding the Line: Policing the Open Border Part II: Behind the Wall 1961-89 5: Walled In: 13 August 1961 6: In the Shadow of the Wall 7: Wanderlust: Travel, Emigration and the Movement Part III: Beyond the Wall 8: The Fall of the Wall: 9 November 1989 9: Seeking Closure: Remembering the Wall

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Major, Major Patrick
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.02.2010
• EAN: 9780199243280
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924328-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), East Germany, Ddr, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General