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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820055703321

Autore

Dennis Mike <1940->

Titolo

State and minorities in communist East Germany / / Mike Dennis and Norman LaPorte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011

ISBN

1-78238-104-X

0-85745-196-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Monographs in German history ; ; v. 33

Classificazione

LB 48016

Altri autori (Persone)

LaporteNorman

Disciplina

305.800943/109045

305.5609431

Soggetti

Minorities - Germany (East) - Social conditions

Minorities - Government policy - Germany (East) - History

Communism - Social aspects - Germany (East) - History

Authority - Social aspects - Germany (East) - History

Political culture - Germany (East) - History

Germany (East) Social conditions

Germany (East) Ethnic relations

Germany (East) Politics and government

Germany (East) Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

State, society, and minority groups in the GDR / Mike Dennis and Norman Laporte -- Between Torah and sickle : Jews in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Mike Dennis -- Jehovah's Witnesses : from persecution to survival / Mike Dennis -- Asian and African workers in the niches of society / Mike Dennis -- Football fans, hooligans, and the state / Mike Dennis -- Sub-cultures : punks, goths, and heavy metallers / Mike Dennis and Norman Laporte -- Skinheads and right extremism in an anti-fascist state / Norman Laporte -- Conclusion / Mike Dennis.

Sommario/riassunto

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 East German dictatorship and shedding light on the not