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

Horten, Gerd

 
9781789207330: Don't Need No Thought Control: Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
ISBN 10 : 1789207339 ISBN 13 : 9781789207330
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2020

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1789207339
ISBN 13 
9781789207330
Reliure
Belle reliure
Nombre de pages
268
Coordonnées du fabricant
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