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Beyond the Wall : East Germany, 1949-1990 / Katja Hoyer.

Beyond the Wall : East Germany, 1949-1990 / Katja Hoyer.
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ISBN 9780241633502
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Item Number 99993831527
Location 943.1 HOY
Author Hoyer, Katja, (author).
Title Beyond the Wall : East Germany, 1949-1990 / Katja Hoyer.
Varying title East Germany, 1949-1990.
Published [London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023.
©2023.
Collation 475 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
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Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Note Trapped between Hitler and Stalin (1918-1945) -- Risen from ruins (1945-1949) -- Birth pangs (1949-1952) -- Building socialism (1952-1961) -- Brick by brick (1961-1965) -- 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 Note "In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that 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 offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the arc of the state they would go on to create. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 to the creaking foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more dynamic than the Cold war caricature often painted in the West." - Back cover.
Target Audience Recommended by the Retired Teachers Association of the NSW Teachers Federation.
Subject Germany (East) -- History -- 20th century
Germany (East) -- Politics and government -- History
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