{"product_id":"socialist-modern-katherine-pence-9780472069743","title":"Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe reunification of Germany in 1989 may have put an end to the experiment in East German communism, but its historical assessment is far from over. Where most of the literature over the past two decades has been driven by the desire to uncover the relationship between power and resistance, complicity and consent, more recent scholarship tends to concentrate on the everyday history of East German citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume builds on the latest literature by exploring the development and experience of life in East Germany, with a particular view toward addressing the question: What did modernity mean for the East German state and society? As such, the collection moves beyond the conceptual divide between state-level politics and everyday life to sharply focus on the specific contours of the GDR's unique experiment in Cold War socialism. What unites all the essays is the question of how the very tensions around \"socialist modernity\" shaped the views, memories, and actions of East Germans over four decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An impressive volume drawing together rich, diverse essays by some of the most interesting, well-known, and experienced scholars on the GDR in the field, on both sides of the Atlantic.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Dr. Jan Palmowski, Senior Lecturer in European Studies at King's College London, and Review Editor for \u003ci\u003eGerman History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Delving into many sides of the GDR modern, Pence and Betts present both new empirical evidence and offer insightful theoretical perspectives. The idea of the 'Socialist Modern' provides an excellent conceptual framework; the focus on culture fills a hole in the literature, the introduction is theoretically sophisticated and well-grounded in the historiography, and the span and heterogeneity of the articles are impressive.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Donna Harsch, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine Pence is Assistant Professor of History, Baruch College, City University of New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Betts is Reader in Modern German History, University of Sussex, Brighton, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eDaphne Berdahl \u003cbr\u003ePaul Betts\u003cbr\u003eAlon Confino\u003cbr\u003eGreg Eghigian\u003cbr\u003eDagmar Herzog\u003cbr\u003eYoung-Sun Hong\u003cbr\u003eThomas Lindenberger\u003cbr\u003eAlf Lüdtke\u003cbr\u003eIna Merkel\u003cbr\u003eKatherine Pence\u003cbr\u003eJudd Stitziel\u003cbr\u003eDorothee Wierling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine Pence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472069748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472069743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 6.06w x 0.92d","brand":"Katherine Pence","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46670386036991,"sku":"9780472069743","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/socialist-modern-katherine-pence-9780472069743","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}