"How do societies transitioning from oppressive to democratic rule hold accountable those citizens who contributed to maintaining injustice in the ancient regime by secretly denouncing fellow citizens? Is their public identification a way of fulfilling respect for those who suff…
For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by the Stasi. Echoes of Surrealism surveys the ways in which a sense of the surreal infused …
"This book examines competition and collaboration among Western powers, the socialist bloc, and the Third World for control over humanitarian aid programs during the Cold War. Young-sun Hong's analysis reevaluates the established parameters of German history. On the one hand, gl…
"Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itsel…
Indigenous activism in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s challenged Eurocentric narratives and stereotypes of Indigenous peoples, and of equality in the United States. The 1973 Occupation of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota gained internation…
Exclusionism developed in the former East Germany since the influx of immigrants from the Middle East. Through the vote share of the far-right party, Alternative für Deutschland (AFD), in the recent elections, including the 2014 European election, the 2017 federal election, and …
The work looked at east German senior industrial managers in transitionunder the condition of radical environmental change that followedthe introduction of the west German political, economic, and societalsystem in eastern Germany. The enhancement of the understanding ofmanagers…
This thesis analyzes the causes and processes of the East German revolution of 1989. The first half explains the demise of the USSR and its East European allies in terms of their insertion into a changing global environment. A Marxist explanation is given of the economic and soc…
