United and Divided : Germany since 1990 /
United and Divided : Germany since 1990 /
ed. by Mike Dennis, Eva Kolinsky.
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- United and Divided: Germany since 1990. -- 1 Constructing East Germany: Interpretations of GDR History since Unification -- 2 Financing German Unity: Challenges, Methods and Longer-term Consequences -- 3 The Party of Democratic Socialism as Political Voice of East Germany -- 4 Challenges to Rechtsstaatlichkeit in the Berlin Republic: The Kohl Affair and the Stasi Legacy -- 5 Economic Restructuring from Below? The Role of Small and Medium-sized Business in East Germany since 1990 -- 6 Challenges of Participation in German Higher Education – an East-West Comparison -- 7 Transformation and Injustice: Women in East German Universities -- 8 Meanings of Migration in East Germany and the West German Model -- 9 Between Integration and Exclusion: Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Germany -- Select Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index
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The system transformation after German unification in 1990 constituted an experiment on an unprecedented scale. At no point in history had one state attempted to redesign another without conquest, bloodshed or coercion but by treaties, public policy and bureaucratic processes. Unification was achieved by erasing the eastern political and economic model. However, in the meantime it has become clear that the same cannot be said about social transformation. On the contrary, social and cultural attitudes and differentiation have continued and resulted in deep divisions between West and East Germany. After unification, the injustices of politics seemed to have been replaced, in the eyes of most former GDR citizens, by unexpected injustices in the personal spheres of ordinary people who lost their jobs and faced unknown realities of deprivation and social exclusion. These are the main concerns of the contributors to this volume. Incorporating new research findings and published data, they focus on key aspects of economic, political, and social transformation in eastern Germany and compare, through case studies, each area with developments in the west.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781789203851
10.1515/9781789203851 doi
Political culture--Germany (East).
HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
DD289.5 / .U558 2004
943.10879
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- United and Divided: Germany since 1990. -- 1 Constructing East Germany: Interpretations of GDR History since Unification -- 2 Financing German Unity: Challenges, Methods and Longer-term Consequences -- 3 The Party of Democratic Socialism as Political Voice of East Germany -- 4 Challenges to Rechtsstaatlichkeit in the Berlin Republic: The Kohl Affair and the Stasi Legacy -- 5 Economic Restructuring from Below? The Role of Small and Medium-sized Business in East Germany since 1990 -- 6 Challenges of Participation in German Higher Education – an East-West Comparison -- 7 Transformation and Injustice: Women in East German Universities -- 8 Meanings of Migration in East Germany and the West German Model -- 9 Between Integration and Exclusion: Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Germany -- Select Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The system transformation after German unification in 1990 constituted an experiment on an unprecedented scale. At no point in history had one state attempted to redesign another without conquest, bloodshed or coercion but by treaties, public policy and bureaucratic processes. Unification was achieved by erasing the eastern political and economic model. However, in the meantime it has become clear that the same cannot be said about social transformation. On the contrary, social and cultural attitudes and differentiation have continued and resulted in deep divisions between West and East Germany. After unification, the injustices of politics seemed to have been replaced, in the eyes of most former GDR citizens, by unexpected injustices in the personal spheres of ordinary people who lost their jobs and faced unknown realities of deprivation and social exclusion. These are the main concerns of the contributors to this volume. Incorporating new research findings and published data, they focus on key aspects of economic, political, and social transformation in eastern Germany and compare, through case studies, each area with developments in the west.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781789203851
10.1515/9781789203851 doi
Political culture--Germany (East).
HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
DD289.5 / .U558 2004
943.10879