Inventing a socialist nation : Heimat and the politics of everyday life in the GDR, 1945-1990 /

"Twenty years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, historians still struggle to explain how an apparently stable state imploded with such vehemence. This is the first book to show how 'national' identity was invented in the GDR and how citizens engaged with it. Jan Pa...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Palmowski, Jan
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series:	New studies in European history.
Subjects:	Germany (East) > Politics and government. Nationalism > Germany (East) Nationalism and socialism > Germany (East) Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands. Political culture > Germany (East) National characteristics, East German. Germany (East) > Social conditions.
Online Access:	Cover image