Overview
- Looks at the unification of Germany from the side of the GDR intelligentsia
- Provides a sociological ethnography account looking at collective memory of the time
- Challenges traditional wisdom and provides a four-conceptual point of view
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About this book
This book discusses the reunification of Germany and the negative impacts that this had on East German intellectuals. The book is an ethnographic account of how the intellectuals of East Germany reacted to the demise of their nation, their “dream” of a socialist world, and unification with capitalist West Germany. Part I covers unification, 1990-91; Part II presents a quarter century later follow-up with one-fourth of those interviewed in 1990-91; and Part III examines the case from three social science perspectives.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dan Bednarz is Assistant Professor at Bristol Community College, USA. Bednarz has done research on organizational responses to decline, including how New York City mental health centers adapted to that city’s 1970s fiscal crisis, and how public health systems responded to cutbacks in state and local funding during and after the 2008 financial and economic crash.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: East German Intellectuals and the Unification of Germany
Book Subtitle: An Ethnographic View
Authors: Dan Bednarz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42951-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42950-2Published: 10 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82702-5Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42951-9Published: 31 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 269
Topics: Historical Sociology, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Political Sociology, Ethnography