The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker

by Mary Fulbrook

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An insight into the experience of life within the East German dictatorship

What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of political repression and corruption, do not tell the whole story. After the unification of Germany in 1990 many East Germans remembered their lives as interesting, varied, and full of educational, career, and leisure opportunities: in many ways "perfectly ordinary lives."


Using the rich resources of the newly-opened GDR archives, Mary Fulbrook investigates these conflicting narratives. She explores the transformation...

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  • ISBN10 0300144245
  • ISBN13 9780300144246
  • Publish Date 15 October 2008 (first published 1 November 2005)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press