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Born in the GDR : life in the shadow of the Wall
- Title
- Born in the GDR : life in the shadow of the Wall / Hester Vaizey.
- Author
- Vaizey, Hester, 1981-
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 224 pages : illustrations, facsimilies; 23 cm
- Summary
- The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and upheaval: from the way they voted, the newspapers they read, to the brand of butter they bought. 0But what was it really like to go from living under communism one minute, to capitalism the next? What did the East Germans make of capitalism? And how do they remember the GDR today? Are their memories dominated by fear and loathing of the Stasi state, or do they look back with a measure of fondness and regret on a world of guaranteed employment and low living costs?
- Subject
- Berlin Wall (Germany : 1961-1989)
- 1961 - 1989
- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 > Personal narratives
- Germany (East) > Biography
- Germany (East) > Social conditions
- Berlin (Germany) > Biography
- Berlin (Germany) > Social conditions
- Germany > History > Unification, 1990 > Personal narratives
- Berlin (Germany) > History > 1945-1990 > Personal narratives
- Germany
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.
- Contents
- Petra : shaping the change -- Carola : seeing the contradictions -- Lisa : accepting the circumstances -- Mario : feeling the regime's wrath -- Katharina : believing in God under pressure -- Robert : supporting the idea of socialism -- Mirko : rejecting the party line -- Peggy : feeling safe and secure -- Interpreting the end of East Germany.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-334
- ISBN
- 9780198718734
- 019871873X
- OCLC
- 875151720
- Author
- Vaizey, Hester, 1981-
- Title
- Born in the GDR : life in the shadow of the Wall / Hester Vaizey.
- Imprint
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1961 - 1989
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-334