State and Minorities in Communist East Germany

Nonfiction, History, Germany, Modern, 20th Century, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Mike Dennis, Norman LaPorte ISBN: 9780857451965
Publisher: Berghahn Books Publication: August 1, 2011
Imprint: Berghahn Books Language: English
Author: Mike Dennis, Norman LaPorte
ISBN: 9780857451965
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication: August 1, 2011
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Language: English

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 (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, ‘guest’ workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich Honecker’s 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.

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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 (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, ‘guest’ workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich Honecker’s 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.

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