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Anatomy of a Dictatorship

Mary Fulbrook
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      Founded on the ruins of Hitler's defeated Third Reich, and lacking any intrinsic legitimacy, the German Democratic Republic nevertheless became the most stable and successful state in the Soviet bloc. Yet in the 'gentle revolution' of 1989 it collapsed with startling speed. How can this extraordinary story of political stability followed by sudden implosion be explained? With the opening of the East German archives, it is at last possible to look inside the apparently impregnable dictatorship. Mary Fulbrook provides a compelling interpretation of structures of power and patterns of popular opinion within the GDR. This absorbing study explores the ways in which the tentacles of the all-pervading state captured East German society in the grip of the Stasi, party, and mass organizations, and analyses the emergence in the 1980s of oppositional cultures under theambivalent shelter of a Protestant Church which had come to terms with the communist state. In combining careful archival research with broader theoretical and historical interpretation, Anatomy of a Dictatorship makes a major contribution to debates on recent German history and the character ofcontemporary Germany.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Mary Fulbrook EAN: 9780198207207 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 483 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-12-11 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Germany WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      East Germany, DDR, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1980 to c 1989, Political science and theory, Political structure and processes, European history

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      Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College, London.
      Founded on the ruins of Hitler's defeated Third Reich, and lacking any intrinsic legitimacy, the German Democratic Republic nevertheless became the most stable and successful state in the Soviet bloc. Yet in the 'gentle revolution' of 1989 it collapsed with startling speed. How can this extraordinary story of political stability followed by sudden implosion be explained? With the opening of the East German archives, it is at last possible to look inside the apparently impregnable dictatorship. Mary Fulbrook provides a compelling interpretation of structures of power and patterns of popular opinion within the GDR. This absorbing study explores the ways in which the tentacles of the all-pervading state captured East German society in the grip of the Stasi, party, and mass organizations, and analyses the emergence in the 1980s of oppositional cultures under theambivalent shelter of a Protestant Church which had come to terms with the communist state. In combining careful archival research with broader theoretical and historical interpretation, Anatomy of a Dictatorship makes a major contribution to debates on recent German history and the character ofcontemporary Germany.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Mary Fulbrook EAN: 9780198207207 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 483 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-12-11 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Germany WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      East Germany, DDR, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1980 to c 1989, Political science and theory, Political structure and processes, European history

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      Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College, London.

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