About the Author
Patrick Major lectures in Contemporary History at the University of Warwick.
Jonathan Osmond is Professor of Modern European History at Cardiff University.
Table of Contents
Part I: State * The Leadership of the Socialist Unity Party Of Germany (SED) Under Ulbricht--Peter Grieder * Ulbricht’s Secret Police: The Ministry of State Security--Jens Gieseke * The People’s Police and the People in Ulbricht’s Germany--Richard Bessel * Protecting the Accomplishments of Socialism? The (Re)Militarisation of Life in the GDR--Corey Ross *
Part II: Society * Popular Opinion--Mark Allinson * Workers and the SED in the Summer of 1953--Gareth Pritchard * From Junker Estate to Collective Farm: East German Agrarian Society, 1945-61--Jonathan Osmond * Squaring the Circle: The Dilemmas and Evolution of Women’s Policy--Donna Harsch * The Limits of Repression and Reform: SED Youth Policy in the Early 1960s--Mark Fenemore * Going West: The Open Border and the Problem Of Republikflucht--Patrick Major *
III: Culture * The Evangelical Church in the GDR--Merrilyn Thomas * The Fifth Column: Dance Music in the Early GDR--Toby Thacker * National Paradigm and Legitimacy: Uses of Academic History-Writing in the 1960s--Stefan Berger * History in the Academy: Objectivity and Partisanship in the Marxist Historiography of the GDR--Heiko Feldner *
IV: Conclusion * Retheorising ‘State’ and ‘Society’ in the GDR--Mary Fulbrook
Part I: State * The Leadership of the Socialist Unity Party Of Germany (SED) Under Ulbricht--Peter Grieder * Ulbricht’s Secret Police: The Ministry of State Security--Jens Gieseke * The People’s Police and the People in Ulbricht’s Germany--Richard Bessel * Protecting the Accomplishments of Socialism? The (Re)Militarisation of Life in the GDR--Corey Ross * Part II: Society * Popular Opinion--Mark Allinson * Workers and the SED in the Summer of 1953--Gareth Pritchard * From Junker Estate to Collective Farm: East German Agrarian Society, 1945-61--Jonathan Osmond * Squaring the Circle: The Dilemmas and Evolution of Women’s Policy--Donna Harsch * The Limits of Repression and Reform: SED Youth Policy in the Early 1960s--Mark Fenemore * Going West: The Open Border and the Problem Of Republikflucht--Patrick Major * III: Culture * The Evangelical Church in the GDR--Merrilyn Thomas * The Fifth Column: Dance Music in the Early GDR--Toby Thacker * National Paradigm and Legitimacy: Uses of Academic History-Writing in the 1960s--Stefan Berger * History in the Academy: Objectivity and Partisanship in the Marxist Historiography of the GDR--Heiko Feldner * IV: Conclusion * Retheorising ‘State’ and ‘Society’ in the GDR--Mary Fulbrook