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Don't Need No Thought Control: Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Softcover

Horten, Gerd

 
9781805391463: Don't Need No Thought Control: Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1805391461 ISBN 13: 9781805391463
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

The fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state. Meanwhile, comparatively little attention has been paid to the cultural dimension of these dramatic events, particularly the role played by Western mass media and consumer culture. With a focus on the 1970s and 1980s, Don¿t Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay of popular unrest, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policies under Erich Honecker. It shows how the widespread influence of (and public demands for) Western cultural products forced GDR leaders into a series of grudging accommodations that undermined state power to a hitherto underappreciated extent.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gerd Horten is Emeritus Professor of History at Concordia University, Portland, Oregon. His first book, Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II, was published by the University of California Press in 2002, and he has published articles in journals including German History and German Studies Review.

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1805391461
ISBN 13 
9781805391463
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
270
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