Comrades in Arms: Military Masculinities in East German Culture. By Tom Smith. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. Pp. x + 269. Cloth $135.00. ISBN 978-1789205558.

Konrad Jarausch, ed., Dictatorship as Experience. Toward a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999), 388 pp., £14.00 (pb), ISBN 1-57181-182-6.Thomas Lindenberger, ed., Herrschaft und Eigensinn in der Diktatur (Cologne, Weimar and Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1999) 367 pp., €39.90 (hb), ISBN 3-412-13598-4.Annegret Schüle, ‘Die Spinne’. Die Erfahrungsgeschichte weiblicher Industriearbeit im VEB Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2001), 398 pp., €18.00 (pb), ISBN 3-934565-87-5.Patrick Major and Jonathan Osmond, eds., The Workers' and Peasants' State. Communism and Society in East Germany under Ulbricht 1945–71 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), 272 pp., £15.99 (pb), ISBN 0-7190-6289-6.Joshua Feinstein, The Triumph of the Ordinary. Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema 1949–1989 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 331 pp., £19.50 (pb), ISBN 0-8078-5385-2.

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Book Reviews

German Politics & Society ◽

10.3167/gps.2016.340205 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 84-105

Author(s):

Klaus Berghahn ◽

Russell Dalton ◽

Jason Verber ◽

Robert Tobin ◽

Beverly Crawford ◽

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Keyword(s):

New York ◽

University Of Michigan ◽

New York University ◽

Contemporary Culture ◽

Oxford University ◽

German Colonialism ◽

The Holocaust ◽

Ann Arbor ◽

East German ◽

Nazi Past

Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust (New York: New York University Press, 2014) - Reviewed by Klaus BerghahnMary Fulbrook and Andrew Port, eds. Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler (New York: Berghahn Press, 2013) - Reviewed by Russell DaltonNina Berman, Klaus Mühlhahn, and Patrice Nganang, ed. German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014) - Reviewed by Jason VerberAndrew Wackerfuss, Stormtrooper Families: Homosexuality and Community in the Early Nazi Movement (New York: Harrington Park Press, 2015) - Reviewed by Robert TobinHans Kundnani, The Paradox of German Power (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) - Reviewed by Beverly CrawfordGavriel D. Rosenfeld, Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) - Reviewed by Jeffrey Luppes

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Christian Joppke. East German Dissidents and the Revolution of 1989: Social Movement in a Leninist Regime. New York: New York University Press. 1995. Pp. xiv, 277. Cloth $50.00, paper $17.50

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/101.4.1238-a ◽

1996 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Social Movement ◽

New York University ◽

East German ◽

The Revolution

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Laura Deiulio and John B. Lyon, eds. Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture: Literary Joint Ventures 1750–1850. New Directions in German Studies, vol. 27. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 332 pp.

Goethe Yearbook 28 ◽

10.2307/j.ctv1q16rmk.36 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 379-381

Author(s):

Karin Baumgartner

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Joint Ventures ◽

German Studies ◽

German Culture ◽

New Directions

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The East German Leadership and the Division of Germany: Patriotism and Propaganda, 1945–53. By Dirk Spilker. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.2006. Pp. xi+296. Cloth $99.00. ISBN 0-19-928412-1.

Central European History ◽

10.1017/s0008938908000253 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 169-171

Author(s):

Andrew I. Port

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Oxford University ◽

East German ◽

Oxford University Press

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Peter Grieder. The East German Leadership 1946–73: Conflict and Crisis. New York: Manchester University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 243 and Mark AllinsonPolitics and Popular Opinion in East Germany 1945–68. New York: Manchester University Press. 2000. Pp. x, 178. $74.95

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/106.3.1073 ◽

2001 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

East Germany ◽

Popular Opinion ◽

East German

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East German Music and the Problem of National Identity

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1080/00905990902985710 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 501-522 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laura Silverberg

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Soviet Union ◽

West Germany ◽

Eastern Bloc ◽

German Culture ◽

Language And Culture ◽

Nation States ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Awkward Position ◽

East German

Caught between political allegiance to the Soviet Union and a shared history with West Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) occupied an awkward position in Cold War Europe. While other countries in the Eastern Bloc already existed as nation-states before coming under Soviet control, the GDR was the product of Germany's arbitrary division. There was no specifically East German culture in 1945—only a German culture. When it came to matters of national identity, officials in the GDR's ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) could not posit a unique quality of “East Germanness,” but could only highlight East Germany's difference from its western neighbor. This difference did not stem from the language and culture of the past, but the politics and ideology of the present: East Germany was socialist Germany.

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