UID:
edocfu_9959295738802883
Format:
1 online resource (254 p.)
ISBN:
1-78238-104-X
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0-85745-196-0
Series Statement:
Monographs in German history ; v. 33
Content:
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 not
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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State, society, and minority groups in the GDR / Mike Dennis and Norman Laporte -- Between Torah and sickle : Jews in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Mike Dennis -- Jehovah's Witnesses : from persecution to survival / Mike Dennis -- Asian and African workers in the niches of society / Mike Dennis -- Football fans, hooligans, and the state / Mike Dennis -- Sub-cultures : punks, goths, and heavy metallers / Mike Dennis and Norman Laporte -- Skinheads and right extremism in an anti-fascist state / Norman Laporte -- Conclusion / Mike Dennis.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78238-103-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-85745-195-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
DOI:
10.1515/9780857451965
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857451965
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857451965
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