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Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe
In: Fringe
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing. Providing both methodological reflections and practical examples, they compare informal settlements, unauthorised occupation of flats, illegal housing construction and political squatting in different regions of the world. Subjects covered include squatter settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, squatting activism in Brazil and Spain, right-wing squatting in Germany, planning laws and informality across countries in the Global North, and squatting in post-Second World War UK and Australia.
Kessler , Mario A Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow: Dissident Against His Will (review)
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 99, Heft 3, S. 579-581
ISSN: 2222-4327
Outwitting the Gestapo? German Communist Resistance between Loyalty and Betrayal
In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 57, Heft 2, S. 365-386
ISSN: 1461-7250
This article discusses ambiguous tactics of German Communist resisters in the Third Reich. The official historiography of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) portrayed Communist resisters as unfaltering heroes. By contrast, revisionist studies published after 1990 presented Communists as traitors and renegades. This study transcends these approaches that revolve around legitimation or de-legitimation of the dictatorship, and examines the dubious manoeuvring of three German Communists who strategically collaborated with the Nazis, namely Theodor Bottländer, Friedrich Schlotterbeck and Wilhelm Knöchel. While Knöchel's attempts to outwit the Gestapo failed and could not prevent his execution, Schlotterbeck and Bottländer found ways to survive - largely without betraying their comrades. Even so, the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), as well as its successor in the GDR, the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED), reprimanded venturesome, inventive and obstinate Communists, excluded them from the party and brought them to court. The harsh reactions are indicative of the inability of Communist historiography to acknowledge 'Eigen-Sinn', and highlight a central shortcoming of the antifascist doctrine. Likewise, more recent revisionist approaches have failed to recognise various attempts of Communists to minimise harm and survive in the grey zone between betrayal and loyalty.
Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany by Demshuk Andrew (review)
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 99, Heft 2, S. 375-376
ISSN: 2222-4327
Driven into Suicide by the East German Regime? Reflections on the Persistence of a Misleading Perception
In: Central European history, Band 52, Heft 2, S. 310-332
ISSN: 1569-1616
AbstractThe assumption that the communist dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) drove many people to suicide has persisted for decades, and it is still evident in academic and public discourse. Yet, high suicide rates in eastern Germany, which can be traced back to the nineteenth century, cannot be a result of a particular political system. Be it monarchy, democracy, fascism, or socialism, the frequency of suicide there did not change significantly. In fact, the share of politically motivated suicides in the GDR amounts to only 1–2 percent of the total. Political, economic, or sociocultural factors did not have a significant impact on suicide rates. An analysis of two subsets of GDR society that were more likely to be affected by repression—prisoners and army recruits—further corroborates this: there is no evidence of a higher suicide rate in either case. Complimentary to a quantitative approach "from above," a qualitative analysis "from below" not only underlines the limited importance of repression, but also points to a regional pattern of behavior linked to cultural influences and to the role of religion—specifically, to Protestantism. Several factors nevertheless fostered the persistence of an overly politicized interpretation of suicide in the GDR: the bereaved in the East, the media in the West, and a few victims of suicide themselves blamed the regime and downplayed important individual and pathological aspects. Moreover, state and party officials in the GDR unintentionally reinforced the politicization of suicide by imposing a taboo on the subject, which only fueled the flames of speculation about its root causes.
Blankenship, Robert Suicide in East German Literature: Fiction, Rhetoric, and the Self-Destruction of Literary Heritage (review)
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 96, Heft 4, S. 768-770
ISSN: 2222-4327
Psychiatry in Communist Europe
In: Central Europe, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 159-159
ISSN: 1745-8218
Selbsttötungen als Indikator für psychosoziale Lebensqualität? Eine Sondierung zu "suizidalen Strukturen" in der DDR
In: Paragrana, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 128-139
Zusammenfassung
In der bundesdeutschen Geschichtskultur häufig anzutreffende Interpretationen von suizidaler Verzweiflung unter den Bedingungen der SED-Diktatur werden hinterfragt anhand der Selbsttötungsstatistiken der DDR, welche seit 1963 geheim gehalten, nichtsdestotrotz aber mit preußischer Gründlichkeit Jahr für Jahr erstellt wurden. Es wird versucht, Einflüsse des politischen Systems auf die Selbsttötungshäufigkeit nachzuweisen bzw. auszuschließen. Als eine Art "Geländer" für die Gedankenführung dient die Selbsttötungs-Typologie von Émile Durkheim.