A History Shared and Divided. East and West Germany Since the 1970s

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A History Shared and Divided East and West Germany since the 1970s E E E Edited by Frank Bösch Translated by Jennifer Walcoff Ne ...

Published in 2018 by Berghahn Books http://www.berghahnbooks.com English-language edition © 2018 Berghahn Books German-language ...

E CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations x Introduction. Divided and Connected: Perspective ...

Chapter 8. Educational Rivalries: The Transition from a German-German Contest to an International Competition 394 Emmanuel Droit ...

E ILLUSTRATIONS Figures 1.1. “In East and West: Swords into Ploughshares”: Two Civil Rights Activists from the GDR (Peter Rösch ...

5.3a. Employment in the Federal Republic of Germany according to Economic Sectors from 1970 to 2010 266 5.3b. Gross Value Added ...

E ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Can and should we write a joint history of East and West Germany? The Center for Contemporary History in Potsd ...

E ABBREVIATIONS AfD Alternative for Germany ARD Consortium of Public Broadcasters in Germany – First German Television Network B ...

ABBREVIATIONS xi ECSC European Coal and Steel Community EEC European Economic Community EFTA European Free Trade Association EOS ...

xii ABBREVIATIONS SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany Stasi Ministry for State Security / State Security Service STR Scientif ...

E introduction Divided and Connected Perspectives on German History since the 1970s Frank Bösch O ver the last decade, the fi el ...

2 FRANK BÖSCH many, such as work, the economy, welfare, education, lifestyle, and pol- itics, as well as the environment, sports ...

INTRODUCTION 3 a socialist dictatorship with a planned economy.^7 It cannot be forgotten that these diff erent forms of state pe ...

4 FRANK BÖSCH Scholarship on Contemporary History and the Two German States Shortly after reunifi cation, a few scholars began c ...

INTRODUCTION 5 cialism than as the dawn of a unifi ed Germany and Europe. In particular, the 1970s and 1980s now tend to be pain ...

6 FRANK BÖSCH niches within the GDR. He also highlights the shared cultural heritage of both countries that dated back to the ei ...

INTRODUCTION 7 the continuance of a culture of competition as well as new overarching problems within a longer time frame.^33 Wi ...