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

by Mary Fulbrook

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300144245
• ISBN13: 9780300144246
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"