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050		4	_aHX280.5.A6 _bW58 2017
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aWitkowski, Gregory _eautore
245	1	4	_aThe Campaign State : _bCommunist Mobilizations for the East German Countryside, 1945–1990 / _cGregory Witkowski.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2017
300			_a1 online resource (279 p.) : _b14 illustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAbbreviations -- _tIllustrations -- _tAuthor's Note -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tINTRODUCTION Campaigns in Context -- _tPart One CAMPAIGNS AND STATE PLANNING -- _tCHAPTER ONE Out of Ruins? Creating an East German State, 1945-1952 -- _tCHAPTER Two State Planning in Action: Communist Campaigns in the Era of Collectivization, 1953-1961 -- _tCHAPTER THREE Recruiting the "Best Workers" -- _tCHAPTER FOUR Workers to the Countryside! -- _tPart Two RITUALIZATION OF CAMPAIGNS -- _tCHAPTER FIVE Reforms New Opportunities after the Berlin Wall -- _tCHAPTER SIX Campaigns in Honecker's Germany -- _tCONCLUSION Evaluating the Campaign State -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aCommunist regimes are defined by dictatorial power, state planning, and active propaganda machines. In The Campaign State, Gregory Witkowski explores the intersection of these three elements in East Germany by focusing on mass mobilizations. He dissects the anatomy of campaigns and argues that while mass mobilizations are often perceived as symbols of strength, they also indicate underlying systemic weaknesses. By focusing on the ability of regimes to mobilize individuals to transform society, he explains both the durability and the ultimate demise of the German Democratic Republic. This study seamlessly blends an analysis of top-down campaign initiatives with the influence of such mobilizations on the grassroots level. For more than thirty years, East German leaders doggedly extended such mobilization efforts, yet complete success remained elusive. Witkowski reveals how local leaders, campaign participants, and peasants acted in ways both compliant and noncompliant with party goals to create societal change. Campaigns became a ubiquitous part of life under communist rule. Witkowski shows that such mobilizations were initially an integral part of state-planning efforts and only later became ritualized, as party portrayals of goals and accomplishments diverged from East Germans' lived experience. He argues that incessant campaigns exposed a substantial gap between rhetoric and reality in the German Democratic Republic that undermined the regime's legitimacy. This valuable and original study will appeal to scholars and students of German history, Communism, and state planning.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650		0	_aCommunism _zGermany (East) _y20th century.
650		4	_aHistory.
650		4	_aWest European History.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Europe / Germany. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501757655
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501757655
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501757655/original
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