Inventing a Socialist Nation: Heimat and the Politics of Everyday Life in the Gdr, 1945-90

by Jan Palmowski

Twenty years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, historians still struggle to explain how an apparently stable state imploded with such vehemence. This book shows how 'national' identity was invented in the GDR and how citizens engaged with it. Jan Palmowski argues that it was hard for individuals to identify with the GDR amid the threat of Stasi informants and with the accelerating urban and environmental decay of the 1970s and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521111773
• ISBN13: 9780521111775
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"