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Once the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the people of East Germany had little use for the dissident intellectuals who had helped bring it down. This book offers a look into the circumstances of this fall from grace, unique among the former Communist states.

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Introduction - intellectuals and politics; the making of an East German intelligentsia; intellectuals, the state and opposition, 1956-80; the intelligentsia and the development of opposition in the GDR during the 1980s; the intelligentsia in the socialist denouement, 1989 - exodus and opposition in the East German transformation; the prophets outcast - the end of the GDR and the coming of unification, 1989-90; the abortive revolution continues - East German civil rights activists after unification.

Intellectuals Socialism and Dissent The East

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 23/08/1995
      ISBN13: 9780816625673, 978-0816625673
      ISBN10: 0816625670

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Once the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the people of East Germany had little use for the dissident intellectuals who had helped bring it down. This book offers a look into the circumstances of this fall from grace, unique among the former Communist states.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction - intellectuals and politics; the making of an East German intelligentsia; intellectuals, the state and opposition, 1956-80; the intelligentsia and the development of opposition in the GDR during the 1980s; the intelligentsia in the socialist denouement, 1989 - exodus and opposition in the East German transformation; the prophets outcast - the end of the GDR and the coming of unification, 1989-90; the abortive revolution continues - East German civil rights activists after unification.

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