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State and Minorities in Communist East Germany, 1945-1990 (Monographs in German History)
State and Minorities in Communist East Germany 19451990 - Monographs in German History Author:Mike Dennis, Norman Laporte Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, guestA" workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads)and their interaction with state and party bodies during Er... more »ich Honecker's rule over the communist system. It explores how they were able to resist persecution and surveillance by instruments of the state, thus illustrating the limits on the power of the post-totalitarian East German dictatorship and shedding light on the notion of authority as social practice.« less