Publication

2005 - Berghahn Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

34,000 words, Guess

Page Count

136 pages

Identifiers

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  • Goodreads6083790

Classifications

  • LCCJN3971.A98 P3779 2005

Description

"Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists). He contends that the Stalinization of the GDR itself was the product not just of the Cold War but of a longer inter-systemic struggle between the competing primacies of politics and economics and that the end of the GDR has to be seen as a consequence of the global collapse of the social imperative under the pressure of the re-emergence of the market-state since the mid-1970s."--Jacket.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Monographs in German history -- v. 13

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