By Paul Betts, Katherine Pence
The reunification of Germany in 1989 can have positioned an finish to the scan in East German communism, yet its historic evaluation is much from over. the place lots of the literature during the last twenty years has been pushed via the need to discover the connection among energy and resistance, complicity and consent, more moderen scholarship has a tendency to be aware of the typical historical past of East German citizens.
This quantity builds at the most recent literature by means of exploring the improvement and event of existence in East Germany, with a selected view towards addressing the query: What did modernity suggest for the East German country and society? As such, the gathering strikes past the conceptual divide among state-level politics and daily life to sharply specialise in the categorical contours of the GDR's certain scan in chilly struggle socialism. What unites the entire essays is the query of the way the very tensions round "socialist modernity" formed the perspectives, stories, and activities of East Germans over 4 decades.
"An outstanding quantity drawing jointly wealthy, various essays by means of the most fascinating, famous, and skilled students at the GDR within the box, on each side of the Atlantic."
---Dr. Jan Palmowski, Senior Lecturer in ecu reviews at King's collage London, and evaluation Editor for German History
"Delving into many facets of the GDR glossy, Pence and Betts current either new empirical proof and supply insightful theoretical views. the belief of the 'Socialist Modern' offers a good conceptual framework; the point of interest on tradition fills a gap within the literature, the advent is theoretically subtle and well-grounded within the historiography, and the span and heterogeneity of the articles are impressive."
---Donna Harsch, affiliate Professor of background, Carnegie Mellon University
Katherine Pence is Assistant Professor of background, Baruch university, urban collage of latest York.
Paul Betts is Reader in glossy German background, college of Sussex, Brighton, England.
Contributors
Daphne Berdahl
Paul Betts
Alon Confino
Greg Eghigian
Dagmar Herzog
Young-Sun Hong
Thomas Lindenberger
Alf Lüdtke
Ina Merkel
Katherine Pence
Judd Stitziel
Dorothee Wierling
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She reflects on the recent trend of Ostalgie to show how conceptions of prosperity and shortage continue to inform GDR identity. Instead of concentrating on nostalgia for socialist kitsch, her essay discusses the "inner logic of socialist society" through the lens of advertising and market research, two cultural fields that both shaped and scrutinized GDR consumer citizens. Her anthropological analysis of socialist consumer culture discards the misnomer "shortage society" to describe the GDR and instead reconsiders the planned economy's mixed record in creating a viable alternative of modernity.
Alter and Monteath, 129-51. roo. Wolfgang Engler, Die Ostdeutschen: Kunde von einem verlorenen Land (Berlin, 2000), 6r. ror. Jurgen Kocka, "The GDR: A Special Kind of Modern Dictatorship," 23. ro2. Jeffrey Kopstein, The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989 (Chapel Hill, 1997), 196. 103. Hanna Schissler, "Introduction: Writing about 1950s West Germany," in The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968, ed. Hanna Schissler (Princeton, 2oor ), 5· I04. Ibid. ros.
Beginning in May 1951, researchers began examining and interviewing eighth graders in Berlin-Malchow for signs of, among other things, poor hygiene, anxiety, depression, dysfunctional family life, unruliness, and speech impediments. 56 Walter Ulbricht himself took a personal interest in the project and enjoined his minister of health to fully back the initiative. 57 The results of this and other studies conducted by local health offices led the psychological counseling centers to press authorities to develop a more seamless network of closed, transitional, and outpatient facilities to monitor and supervise the "premorbid personality" of at-risk youths.