A History Shared and Divided. East and West Germany Since the 1970s
48 FRANK BÖSCH AND JENS GIESEKE teractions, primarily through the establishment of “permanent missions” (instead of embassies), ...
POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 49 between the two Germanys was part of a number of growing cross-border political entanglements. Both ...
50 FRANK BÖSCH AND JENS GIESEKE Helsinki Accords, the East thus ensured the codifi cation of the political status quo in Europe ...
POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 51 order to meet with civil rights activists, and she also corresponded with Honecker.^21 As most of t ...
52 FRANK BÖSCH AND JENS GIESEKE kind of “catch-up modernization” that also widened the political and cul- tural gap between East ...
POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 53 These basic politicization and depoliticization processes in the GDR featured a diff erent dynamic, ...
54 FRANK BÖSCH AND JENS GIESEKE content with the overall economic situation and the ongoing issues with the supply of goods, wor ...
POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 55 apolitical for West Germans for a long time. By the end of the 1960s, however, this West German vie ...
56 FRANK BÖSCH AND JENS GIESEKE average, as was the number of strikes and the scope of the demonstra- tions. Traditionally, the ...
POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 57 during this decade. It membership doubled to over 700,000, while the CSU (Christian Socialist Union ...
58 FRANK BÖSCH AND JENS GIESEKE pragmatic “Realos.” In the liberal FDP (Freie Demokratische Partei), left- ists, national libera ...
POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 59 Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund)—which was the umbrella organization of the trade unions—or the Society ...
60 FRANK BÖSCH AND JENS GIESEKE the Kulturbund and organized in local groups, for instance, the boundar- ies between oppositiona ...
POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 61 Notwithstanding, the churches came to play an essential role in laying the foundation for a democra ...
62 FRANK BÖSCH AND JENS GIESEKE fi nes of the SED regime. Nonetheless, it can still be said that the SED had to become more resp ...
POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 63 secution practices, for example, the SED increasingly took into account anticipated negative resona ...
64 FRANK BÖSCH AND JENS GIESEKE ments and their—apparent or real—counterparts in the East. The West- ern protest movements were ...
POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 65 Scholars still disagree as to whether the term “new social move- ments” can be used in reference to ...
66 FRANK BÖSCH AND JENS GIESEKE and Chernobyl in 1986 drew more people into social movements. The fears associated with these pr ...
POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 67 through the strong resonance within church youth groups. For the fi rst time in a long while, GDR c ...
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