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State and Minorities in Communist East Germany

Author
Dennis, Mike, 1940-
Published
New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (254 pages).
Additional Creators
Laporte, Norman
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Language Note
English.
Contents
State and Minorities in Communist East Germany; CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1 -- STATE, SOCIETY AND MINORITY GROUPS IN THE GDR; CHAPTER 2 -- BETWEEN TORAH AND SICKLE: JEWS IN EAST GERMANY, 1945-1990; CHAPTER 3 -- JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: FROM PERSECUTION TO SURVIVAL; CHAPTER 4 -- ASIAN AND AFRICAN WORKERS IN THE NICHES OF SOCIETY; CHAPTER 5 -- FOOTBALL FANS, HOOLIGANS AND THE STATE; CHAPTER 6 -- SUB-CULTURES: PUNKS, GOTHS AND HEAVY METALLERS; CHAPTER 7 -- SKINHEADS AND RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM IN AN ANTI-FASCIST STATE; CHAPTER 8 -- CONCLUSION: MINORITIES, PRESENT AND PAST; REFERENCES; INDEX.
Summary
Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, "guest" workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads)and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich Honecker's rule over the communist system. It explores how they were able to resist persecution and surveillance by instruments of the state, thus illustrating the limits on the power of the post-totalitarian East German dictatorship and shedding li.
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ISBN
9780857451965
0857451960
9780857451958 (hbk. ; acid-free paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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