[PDF] The Politics Of Culture In Soviet Occupied Germany 1945 1949 eBook

Author : David Pike
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804720939

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They allow for a painstaking analysis of the political and "aesthetic" priorities of a developing Stalinist culture while raising intriguing questions about the early stages of the Cold War and the subsequent division of Germany. In particular, the gradual introduction of Zhdanovist or socialist-realist political norms and aesthetic forms into Soviet-occupied Germany closely paralleled developments in the Soviet Union during the infamous zhdanovshchina (1946-1948). Smear campaigns against "formalism," "decadence," and "cosmopolitanism," carefully tailored to local circumstances, were the natural consequence. Simultaneously, the German Communists worked behind the scenes with the Soviet occupation regime to establish the administrative apparatus for the enforcement of these standards, imported from the Soviet Union and calculated to infuse German art and literature with the proper political priorities.

Author : Norman M. Naimark
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674784055

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In 1945, when the Red Army marched in, eastern Germany was not "occupied" but "liberated." This, until the recent collapse of the Soviet Bloc, is what passed for history in the German Democratic Republic. Now, making use of newly opened archives in Russia and Germany, Norman Naimark reveals what happened during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany from 1945 through 1949. His book offers a comprehensive look at Soviet policies in the occupied zone and their practical consequences for Germans and Russians alike--and, ultimately, for postwar Europe. In rich and lucid detail, Naimark captures the mood and the daily reality of the occupation, the chaos and contradictions of a period marked by rape and repression, the plundering of factories, the exploitation of German science, and the rise of the East German police state. Never have these practices and their place in the overall Soviet strategy, particularly the political development of the zone, received such thorough treatment. Here we have our first clear view of how the Russians regarded the postwar settlement and the German question, how they made policy on issues from reparations to technology transfer to the acquisition of uranium, how they justified their goals, how they met them or failed, and how they changed eastern Germany in the process. The Russians in Germany also takes us deep into the politics of culture as Naimark explores the ways in which Soviet officers used film, theater, and education to foster the Bolshevization of the zone. Unique in its broad, comparative approach to the Soviet military government in Germany, this book fills in a missing--and ultimately fascinating--chapter in the history of modern Europe.

Author : B. Blessing
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0230601634

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This study explores the history of the New School that developed in the postwar period and its role in communicating antifascism to young people in the Soviet zone. Blessing traces how the decisions about how to educate young people after the National Socialist dictatorship became part of a broader discussion about the future of the German nation.

Author : Sean Philip Brennan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0739151258

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The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany illuminates the religious policies of the Soviet military authorities and their allies in the Socialist Unity Party in the Soviet zone, and more importantly, who devised these policies and how they implemented them. Brennan illustrates how the Soviet authorities recreated the Soviet zone along Stalinist lines with regard to religious policy, focusing on the Soviet zone, and in particular its most important province, Berlin-Brandenburg. This book also demonstrates how the church leaders responded to these policies, especially as they became increasingly antireligious. Book jacket.

Author : Esther von Richthofen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845454586

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This text explores how cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, through attempts to dictate the way people spent their free time. It shows how people's cultural life in the GDR developed a dynamic of its own.

Author : Jessica Reinisch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0199660794

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An archive-based study examining how the four Allies - Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union - prepared for and conducted their occupation of Germany after its defeat in 1945. Uses the case of public health to shed light on the complexities of the immediate post-war period.

Author : Elizabeth L. Lakeman
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Communism and education
ISBN :

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In this thesis I have studied the processes of de-Nazification and reeducation carried out by the Soviet Military Administration in Eastern Germany from 1945 to 1949 to create a socialist country. It begins with a background on the political developments across Germany after World War II. Attention is paid to the creation of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States. The thesis moves into a discussion of the de-Nazification process as the purging of National Socialists from society. While punitive measures were utilized at first, I highlight the transition that takes place to more rehabilitative measures in 1947. In terms of reeducation I discuss mass organizations, the educational system and the cultural sphere. Each topic receives its own chapter and the development of socialism in each sphere of society is analyzed in depth.

Author : Andreas Agocs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107085438

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A study of German traditions of cultural renewal from their origins in antifascist activism in German exile communities in Europe and Latin America during World War II to their failure during the emerging Cold War in occupied Germany and the early German Democratic Republic.

Author : David Pike
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807816400

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The life and work of Susan Glaspell, the pioneering, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist, who is best known as the author of Trifles and Alison's House and for her involvement with the Provincetown Players.