MIT Press, 2007. — 381 p. In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology merged with a socialist system that made technological progress central to its ideology. Technology became an important part of East German socialist identity - crucial to how Communists saw their system and how citizens saw their state. In Red Prometheus , Dolores Augustine...
München: Bertelsmann, 2005. - 281 S. - ISBN: 3-570-00822-3 Abschied vom Klischee - vier Jahrzehnte DDR. Anderthalb Jahrzehnte nach der Wiedervereinigung ist "Ostalgie" immer noch in. Guido Knopp setzt dagegen ein differenziertes Bild des "anderen Deutschland". Anhand von exponierten und bisher unbekannten DDR-Lebensläufen werden die Widersprüche einer Gesellschaft sichtbar, in...
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. — 258 p. — ISBN10: 0807857076; ISBN13: 978-0807857076 Jeffrey Kopstein offers the first comprehensive study of East German economic policy over the course of the state's forty-year history. Analyzing both the making of economic policy at the national level and the implementation of specific policies on the shop...
Transl. by Robert F. Hogg. — New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 250 p. — ISBN10: 0312210280; ISBN13: 978-0312210281 How did Germany come to be divided during the Cold War? The renowned German historian Wilfired Loth has examined the archives of the Eastern side and comes to fascinating conclusions. He demonstrates that Stalin wanted neither a separate state on the soil of...
Cambridge University Press, 2008 - 392 p. ISBN10: 052188747X ISBN13: 9780521887472 (eng) More fascinating than fiction, Seduced by Secrets takes the reader inside the real world of one of the most effective and feared spy agencies in history. The book reveals, for the first time, the secret technical methods and sources of the Stasi (East German Ministry for State Security) as...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 336 p. Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. This new history rejects traditional, top-down approaches to Cold War politics, exploring instead how the border closure...
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009. — 415 p. Inhalt. Vorwort. Einleitung. Das Gewölbe der Tradition. Tradition im Rausch. Suche nach neuen Traditionen in der Nachkriegszeit. Die Obrigkeit als Feind. SBZ und fünfziger Jahre. Abgrenzungen. Festkultur und Leben auf der „Insel Herrnhut“. „Playing the System“. Einreihung in die sozialistische Gesellschaft. Das bürgerschaftliche Engagement...
Dresden: Verlag Zeit im Bild, 1971. — 16 p. New Year's Message by Walter Ulbricht, Chairman of the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic. Our Peace Initiative 1970 — A Year With A Remarkable Balance Sheet Where We Go From Here
Dresden: Verlag Zeit im Bild, 1971. — 16 p. New Year's Message by Walter Ulbricht, Chairman of the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic. Our Peace Initiative 1970 — A Year With A Remarkable Balance Sheet Where We Go From Here
München: Bassermann Verlag, 2007. - 144 S. - ISBN: 978-3-641-01877-1 Im ausführlichen Lexikonteil erfährt man mehr über Spreewälder Gurken, den Kosmonauten Sigmund Jähn oder Stehbrettsurfer. Alle Informationen zu Geschichte, Politik, Film, Musik, Essen und Getränken, damit mann/frau beim Smalltalk als Held der Arbeit anerkannt werden kann. Der Autor hat die DDR live miterlebt...
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