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State and Minorities in Communist East Germany, 1945-1990 by Mike Dennis and Norman LaPorte is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is State and Minorities in Communist East Germany, 1945-1990 about?
Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (JehovahOCOs Witnesses, Jews, OCyguestOCO workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich HoneckerOCOs rule over the communist system. It explores how they were able to resist persecution and surveillance by instruments of the state, thus illustrating the limits on the power of the East German dictatorship and shedding light on the notion of authority as social practice."
Who reads State and Minorities in Communist East Germany, 1945-1990?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mike Dennis and Norman LaPorte
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780857451965
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Sociology
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