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Beyond the wall : a history of East Germany / Katja Hoyer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First US editionDescription: 475 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781541602571
  • 1541602579
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Contents:
Trapped between Hitler and Stalin (1918-1945) -- Risen from the ruins (1945-1949) -- Birth pangs (1949-1952) -- Building socialism (1952-1961) -- Brick by brick (1951-1965) -- The other Germany (1965-1971) -- Planned miracles (1971-1975) -- Friends and enemies (1976-1981) -- Existential carefreeness (1981-1986) -- Everything takes its socialist course (1987-1990) -- Epilogue: Unity.
Summary: When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer a new vision of this vanished country. She reveals the rich political, social and cultural landscape that existed amid oppression and hardship.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 943.1087 H868 Checked out 07/23/2024 33111011184310
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, "an expansive and generous history" of East Germany ( New Republic )



In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics.



In Beyond the Wall , acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country, revealing the rich political, social, and cultural landscape that existed amid oppression and hardship. Drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews and documents, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, beyond the Wall.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446) and index.

"Originally published in 2023 by Allen Lane in Great Britain"--t.p verso.

Trapped between Hitler and Stalin (1918-1945) -- Risen from the ruins (1945-1949) -- Birth pangs (1949-1952) -- Building socialism (1952-1961) -- Brick by brick (1951-1965) -- The other Germany (1965-1971) -- Planned miracles (1971-1975) -- Friends and enemies (1976-1981) -- Existential carefreeness (1981-1986) -- Everything takes its socialist course (1987-1990) -- Epilogue: Unity.

When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer a new vision of this vanished country. She reveals the rich political, social and cultural landscape that existed amid oppression and hardship.

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