In:
International Review of Social History, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 39, No. 1 ( 1994-04), p. 77-91
Abstract:
Symbols and rituals held high status in East German public life.2 They allowed, as is now stressed, state socialism to bind the people to the ruling system, while also affirming the links between this system and the traditions and programmes of the pre-stalinist and pre-communist labour movement and pointing to a future in which the red banners would no longer be used to conceal dilapidated facades. Moreover, they represented a society which tried to compensate its members for what they lacked materially with non-material gratification; or put another way, it replaced the struggle to distribute economic capital by a struggle for social and thus symbolic capital.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0020-8590
,
1469-512X
DOI:
10.1017/S0020859000112428
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1994
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1466800-2
detail.hit.zdb_id:
209874-X
SSG:
8
SSG:
3,4
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