Author:
Vaizey, Hester, 1981- author.
Edition Statement:First ed.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2014.
Descriptionxiii, 224 p. : ill., fascimile ; 23 cm.
Note:Petro: shaping the change -- CarolaL seeing the contradictions -- Lisa: accepting the circumstances -- Mario: feeling the regimes -- Mirko: rejecting the party line -- Peggy feeling safe and secure -- Interpretating the end od East Germany.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-217) and index.
Note:The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and upheaval; from the way they voted, the newspapers they read, to the brand of butter they bought. But what was it really like to go from living under communism one minute to capitalism the next ? What did the East Germans make of capitalism? And how do they remember the GDR today? Are there memories dominated by fear and loathing of the Stasi state, or do they look back with a measure of fondness and regret on a world of guaranteed employment and low living costs?
