East German Dissidents and the Revolution of 1989: Social Movement in a Leninist Regime

ISBN-13: 9780333617397 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 277 str.

Christian Joppke; C. Joppke

Opis

In contrast to the dissident movements of Eastern Europe, the East German movement remained committed to the revisionist reform of the communist regime. This book argues that the peculiarities of German history and culture prevented the possibility of a "national" opposition to communism.

Spis treści

Introduction - Social Movements in Leninist Regimes - Regime and Opposition in East Germany - Detente and the Peace Movement - The Incomplete Turn to Human Rights Dissidence - A German Revolution - Why Was There No 'Dissidence' in East Germany? - Appendix - Notes - Bibliography - Index

O autorze

CHRISTIAN JOPPKE is currently Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, where he will continue as Associate Professor in Sociology, and during 1993-94, Research Associate at the Centre for German and European Studies , Georgetown University. He is the author of the mobilizing against Nuclear Energy: a Comparison of Germany and the United States