Beyond the wall : East Germany, 1949-1990
Hoyer, Katja2024
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In 'Beyond the Wall', acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive German fashion. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, to the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and on to the creaking foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted in the West. Powerfully told, and drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews, letters and records, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, the one beyond the Wall.
Main title:
Beyond the wall : East Germany, 1949-1990 / Katja Hoyer.
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Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2024.UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
Collation:
475 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2023."An Allen Lane book"--Back cover.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141999340 (pbk)
Dewey class:
943.1087
Language:
English
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BRN:
2886632