State and Minorities in Communist East Germany

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78238-103-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 379 g

Reihe: Monographs in German History

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 notion of authority as social practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dennis, Mike

Laporte, Norman

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

Preface

Chapter 1. State, Society and Minority Groups in the GDR

Mike Dennis and Norman Laporte

Chapter 2. Between Torah and Sickle: Jews in East Germany, 1945-1990

Mike Dennis

Chapter 3. Jehovah’s Witnesses: From Persecution to Survival

Mike Dennis

Chapter 4.  Asian and African Workers in the Niches of Society

Mike Dennis

Chapter 5. Football Fans, Hooligans and the State

Mike Dennis

Chapter 6. Sub-cultures: Punks, Goths and Heavy Metallers

Mike Dennis and Norman Laporte

Chapter 7. Skinheads and Right Extremism in an Anti-fascist State

Norman Laporte

Conclusion

Mike Dennis

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laporte, Norman
Norman LaPorte is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glamorgan. He has published widely on German Communism, including The German Communist Party in Saxony, 1924–33 (Peter Lang, 2003) and, with Stefan Berger, Friendly Enemies: Britain and the GDR, 1949–1990 (Berghahn, 2010). He is co-founding editor of the journal Twentieth Century Communism.

Dennis, Mike
Mike Dennis is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of several monographs on the GDR, including Social and Economic Modernization in Eastern Germany from Honecker to Kohl (Pinter, 1993) and The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945–1990 (Longman, 2000). He has co-edited numerous books on modern Germany, notably, with D. Steinert, Deutschland 1945–1990 (Wochenschau Verlag, 2005), and is currently engaged on a research project on elite sport in the GDR.

Mike Dennis is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of several monographs on the GDR, including Social and Economic Modernization in Eastern Germany from Honecker to Kohl (Pinter, 1993) and The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945–1990 (Longman, 2000). He has co-edited numerous books on modern Germany, notably, with D. Steinert, Deutschland 1945–1990 (Wochenschau Verlag, 2005), and is currently engaged on a research project on elite sport in the GDR.