Behind the Berlin Wall : East Germany and the frontiers of power /
Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. This new history rejects traditional, top-down approaches to Cold War politics, ex...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. This new history rejects traditional, top-down approaches to Cold War politics, exploring instead how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, 'caught out' by Sunday the Thirteenth. Party, police and Stasi reports reveal why one in six East Germans fled the country during the 1950s, undermining communist rule. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199605106 9780199605101 1282383108 9781282383104 0191567531 9780191567537 9786612383106 6612383100 9780191714061 0191714062 |