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In: Praeger special studies in international economics and development
In: Economica, Volume 43, Issue 169, p. 104
In: The Economic Journal, Volume 85, Issue 339, p. 648
In: Weltgeschehen - Internationales Europaforum: dokumentar. Berichte u. Chronik für Unterricht u. Studium, p. 348-382
ISSN: 0049-7134, 0049-7134
In: Contributions to Political Science
In: Studies in economic transition
In: Routledge research in planning and urban design
Through an examination of the individual life trajectories of youth who participated in an educational exchange project between Mozambique and East Germany, this book offers an alternative reading of Mozambique's socialist past and makes a significant contribution to studies of post-socialist transitions.
In: Oxford scholarship online
Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and touted by the regime as the future of socialism. It also focuses especially on the experience of East Germans who moved, often from crumbling slums left over as a legacy of the nineteenth century, into this radically new place, one defined by pure functionality and rationality; a material manifestation of the utopian promise of socialism
Offering a comparative analysis of feminist social movements in the aftermath of the collapse of state socialism, this book offers a unique opportunity to examine how shifting gender relations interact with local identities to create new understandings of gender, the state, and strategies for resistance.
In: Discussion paper series 686
In: Harvard Historical Studies v.147
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Production and Consumption: Establishing Priorities -- 2. The Contest Begins: The Currency Reform, the Berlin Blockade, and the Introduction of the HO -- 3. The Planned and the Unplanned: Consumer Supply and Provisioning Crisis -- 4. The Rise, Decline, and Afterlife of the New Course -- 5. Demand Research and the Relations Between Trade and Industry -- 6. Crisis Revisited: The Main Economic Task and the Building of the Berlin Wall -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
The transformation of east Germany since unification has wrought vast changes in the economy and in society and left deep scars as the types of social protection offered by the centralised socialism of the previous regime gave way to uncertainties and individualised life chances. Social Transformation in Eastern Germany investigates the deep economic and social processes which east Germany has undergone, highlighting the restructuring, the social impacts and the stresses of adjustment experienced by key social groups whose workplace and social context has been recast almost out of recognition