Inventing a Socialist Nation: Heimat and the Politics of Everyday Life in the GDR, 1945-90 by Jan Palmowski (Paperback, 2013)

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Introduction; Part I. Socialism, Heimat, and the Construction of Identity: 2. Cultural renewal and national division, 1945–c.1958; 3. Trace of stones; Part II. Heimat and identity in the Honecker era; 5.

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Twenty years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, historians still struggle to explain how an apparently stable state imploded with such vehemence. This book shows how 'national' identity was invented in the GDR and how citizens engaged with it. Jan Palmowski argues that it was hard for individuals to identify with the GDR amid the threat of Stasi informants and with the accelerating urban and environmental decay of the 1970s and 1980s. Since socialism contradicted its own ideals of community, identity and environmental care, citizens developed rival meanings of nationhood and identities and learned to mask their growing distance from socialism beneath regular public assertions of socialist belonging. This stabilized the party's rule until 1989. However, when the revolution came, the alternative identifications citizens had developed for decades allowed them to abandon their 'nation', the GDR, with remarkable ease.

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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139781107690424
eBay Product ID (ePID)158324912

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Number of Pages362 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameInventing a Socialist Nation: Heimat and the Politics of Everyday Life in the Gdr, 1945-90
Publication Year2013
SubjectPolitics, History
TypeTextbook
AuthorJan Palmowski
FormatPaperback

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Item Height229 mm
Item Weight480 g
Item Width152 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJan Palmowski
Series TitleNew Studies in European History

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