Inventing a Socialist Nation - Heimat and the Politics of Everyday Life in the Gdr, 1945-90

Informationen zum Autor Jan Palmowski is Professor of Modern History and European Studies and Head of the School of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. His previous publications include Liberalism and the City: The Case of Frankfurt Am Main, 1866–1914 (1999) and Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany (as editor, with Geoff Eley, 2008). Klappentext The first book to show how the state constructed 'national' identity' in the GDR and how citizens engaged with it. Zusammenfassung This book shows how 'national' identity was invented in the German Democratic Republic and how citizens engaged with it! exposing the reasons why individuals found it hard to identify with the GDR and explaining how an apparently stable society fell apart with such ease when the revolution came. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. Socialism, Heimat, and the Construction of Identity: 2. Cultural renewal and national division, 1945-c.1958; 3. Trace of stones; Part II. Public and Private Transcripts: 4. Heimat and identity in the Honecker era; 5. Citizenship and participation in the local community - 'Join In!'; 6. Environmental destruction; Part III. Power, Practices and Meanings: 7. Social drama and the euphemization of power; 8. Cultural practices, Eigen-Sinn, and obfuscated meanings; Conclusion: from citizens to revolutionaries.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Palmowski, Jan (King''s College London) Palmowski, Palmowski Jan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521111775
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11177-5
• No. of pages: 362
• Series: New Studies in European History; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), East Germany, Ddr