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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"German Democratic Republic"”.
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The modern fantastic in German Democratic Republic short prose
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Emigration, occupational mobility, and institutionalization: the German democratic republic.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science. Thesis. 1971. Ph.D.
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The Politics of History and the "Prussia-Renaissance" in the German Democratic Republic, 1968-1987
… phenomenon of the ‘Prussia-Renaissance’ in the German Democratic Republic (the GDR) during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It explores the cultural and political reasons why the official histories of the communist East German state began during this period to recognise and even publicly …
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Wales and the German Democratic Republic: Expressions and perceptions of Welsh identity during the Cold War
… thesis examines relations between Wales and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the Cold War period of 1949 to 1990. Previous studies have investigated who in Britain interacted with the GDR and their motivations for doing so. The appeal of particular groups and demographics to the GDR …
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Comic Books and Culture in the German Democratic Republic, 1955-1990: Between Constructions of Power and Childhood
In 1955, the East German Socialist Unity Party issued the Regulations for the Protection of Youth as a means of controlling publications for children and young people coming across the relatively open German-German border. At the same time, the regime authorized the creation of socialist comics in …
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The state of belonging: Gay and lesbian activism in the German Democratic Republic and beyond, 1949-1989
… 9, 1989, thousands of gay and lesbian East Germans had formed a vibrant, publicly visible gay rights movement in their socialist homeland. I argue—quite in contrast to the existing historiography on the topic—that the movement was geographically diffuse and highly fragmented. Its adherents …
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Privatization in the former German Democratic Republic : changing institutional roles in the governance and sale of industrial assets
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1992.
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Das Bild Des Mannes Im Frauenroman Der Siebziger Jahre. (German Text)
… (Schwaiger), Canada (Atwood), the Federal Republic of Germany (Struck), the German Democratic Republic (Reinig), the United Kingdom (Lessing), and the United States (Jong). In the examined novels men are portrayed as a patriarchal trinity: the son-man, the father-man, and the disturbing …
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Der Umgang mit sensiblen Objekten kolonialer Kontexte in der DDR 1973-1985
This thesis examines the ways in which the GDR (German Democratic Republic) positioned itself in the debate regarding restitutions of sensitive objects, coming from imperial and colonial contexts. After summarizing the institutional conditions, (that are the Ministry of Culture (MfK), the Ministry …
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The Materiality of Memory: Everyday Objects in Post-Socialist Literatures and Cultures
… in three former socialist countries—the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, the German Democratic Republic, and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The main argument is that the palpability of material remains is used in life narratives—broadly conceived to incorporate museum guestbook …
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The involvement of the two German states in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War
… the background of the involvement of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War. In both Korean states, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as well as the Republic of Korea (ROK), the …
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The involvement of the two German states in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War
… the background of the involvement of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War. In both Korean states, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as well as the Republic of Korea (ROK), the …
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Alternative Emanzipationsvorstellungen in der DDR unter Honecker (1971-1990):ein Diskussionsbeitrag zur Rollen der Frau
… last twenty years the situation of women in the German Democratic Republic has been the subject of a considerable number of studies. The approach has generally been of a sociological or socio-political nature. In this thesis I propose to go one step further by examining the information that may …
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The Transatlantic World of William Bloke Modisane, 1951-1986
… Kingdom, East Africa, North America, Italy, the German Democratic Republic, and the Federal Republic of Germany. It argues that Modisane was a pioneering transatlantic intellectual figure who made an unrivalled, albeit underrated, intellectual and cultural contribution to South African creative …
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Transnational Impact on Urban Change. Modern Projects in Vinh, Vietnam
… Vinh through cooperation between Vietnam and the German Democratic Republic in the 1970s. It then moves on to contemporary period starting in the 1990s, during which varying and conflicting modern projects for the city were put forward by different social actors cooperating in joint projects on …
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Socialist State Crime and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1961-2005
… economies, and polities of East and West Germany. On a political, legal, cultural and symbolic level, strategies needed to be found to incorporate the divided – and potentially divisive – past into a forward-looking historical narrative. This study locates the ‘border guard trials’ in the …
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West Germany and Namibia's path to independence, 1969-1990: foreign policy and rivalry with East Germany
This thesis examines West Germany's relationship with Namibia between 1969 and 1990. It investigates West German foreign policy towards Namibia, at the height of the Namibian liberation struggle, against the backdrop of East and West German rivalry. It brings to light that the post-war division of …
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The Sea on the Other Side: The Making of Hamburg and Rostock through the Cold War: 1945-1986
… contrasts the role of seaports in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) between the end of the Second World War and the reunification of Germany. It does so by analyzing how the ports of Hamburg and Rostock were used to legitimize the Cold War division …
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The post-conflict odyssey of German communist veterans of the Spanish Civil War, 1939-1989
In early February of 1939, hundreds of German communists counted among the international volunteers who suffered a crushing rout in what proved their final campaign on behalf of the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War. In the wake of this defeat, which seemed to cast doubt on the viability of …
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