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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452928803321

Titolo

Becoming East Germans : socialist structures and sensibilities after Hitler / / edited by Mary Fulbrook and Andrew I. Port

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013

ISBN

0-85745-975-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 pages)

Collana

Spektrum : publications of the German Studies Association ; ; volume 6

Altri autori (Persone)

FulbrookMary <1951->

PortAndrew I

Disciplina

943/.10874

Soggetti

Socialism - Germany (East) - History

Medical policy - Germany (East)

Public health - Germany (East)

Socialism and culture - Germany (East)

Electronic books.

Germany (East) Social policy

Germany (East) Social conditions

Germany (East) Cultural policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. the banalities of East German historiography / Andrew Port -- East Germans in a post-Nazi state : communities of experience, connection, and identification / Mary Fulbrook -- Divisive unity : the politics of cultural nationalism during the first German Writers' Congress of October 1947 / Andreas Agocs -- Communicating history : the archived letters and memories of "the Red Orchestra" / Joanne Sayner -- Remembered change and changes of remembrance : East German narratives of antifascist conversion / Christiane Wienand -- Perceptions of health after World War II : heart disease and risk factors in East and West Germany, 1945-75 / Jeannette Madarasz -- Socialism fights the proletarian disease : East German efforts to overcome tuberculosis in a Cold War context / Donna Harsch -- The slim imperative : discourses and cultures of dieting in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990 / Neula Kerr-Boyle -- Luxury dining in the later years of the German Democratic Republic / Paul Freedman



-- Expectations, predispositions, and the paradox of working-class behavior in Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic / Andrew Port -- Israel as friend and foe : shaping East German society through Freund- and Feindbilder / David Tompkins -- Humiliation as a weapon within the party : fictional and personal accounts / Phil Leask -- Playing the game : football and everyday life in the Honecker era / Alan McDougall -- Afterword : structures and subjectivities in GDR history / Mary Fulbrook.