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Author |
: Konrad Hugo Jarausch |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105025448908 |
ISBN-13 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rush to German Unity by : Konrad Hugo Jarausch
The bringing down of the Berlin Wall is one of the most vivid images and historic events of the late twentieth century. The reunification of Germany has transformed the face of Europe. In one stunning year, two separate states with clashing ideologies, hostile armies, competing economies, and incompatible social systems merged into one. The speed and extent of the reunification was so great that many people are still trying to understand the events. Initial elation has given way to the realities and problems posed in reuniting two such different systems.The Rush to German Unity presents a clear historical reconstruction of the confusing events. It focuses on the dramatic experiences of the East German people but also explores the decisions of the West German elite. Konrad H. Jarausch draws on the rich sources produced by the collapse of the GDR and on the public debate in the FRG. Beginning with vivid media images, the text probes the background of a problem, traces its treatment and resolution and then reflects on its implications.Combining an insider's insights with an outsider's detachment, the interpretation balances the celebratory and the catastrophic views. The unification process was democratic, peaceful and negotiated. But the merger was also bureaucratic, capitalistic and one-sided. Popular pressures and political manipulation combined to create a rush to unity that threatened to escape control. The revolution moved from a civic rising to a national movement and ended up as reconstruction from the outside. An ideal source for general readers and students, The Rush to German Unity explores whether solving the old German problem has merely created new difficulties.
Author |
: Konrad H. Jarausch |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 1994-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195358940 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195358945 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rush to German Unity by : Konrad H. Jarausch
The bringing down of the Berlin Wall is one of the most vivid images and historic events of the late twentieth century. The reunification of Germany has transformed the face of Europe. In one stunning year, two separate states with clashing ideologies, hostile armies, competing economies, and incompatible social systems merged into one. The speed and extent of the reunification was so great that many people are still trying to understand the events. Initial elation has given way to the realities and problems posed in reuniting two such different systems. The Rush to German Unity presents a clear historical reconstruction of the confusing events. It focuses on the dramatic experiences of the East German people but also explores the decisions of the West German elite. Konrad H. Jarausch draws on the rich sources produced by the collapse of the GDR and on the public debate in the FRG. Beginning with vivid media images, the text probes the background of a problem, traces its treatment and resolution and then reflects on its implications. Combining an insider's insights with an outsider's detachment, the interpretation balances the celebratory and the catastrophic views. The unification process was democratic, peaceful and negotiated. But the merger was also bureaucratic, capitalistic and one-sided. Popular pressures and political manipulation combined to create a rush to unity that threatened to escape control. The revolution moved from a civic rising to a national movement and ended up as reconstruction from the outside. An ideal source for general readers and students, The Rush to German Unity explores whether solving the old German problem has merely created new difficulties.
Author |
: Frederik Boesch |
Publisher |
: GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 15 |
Release |
: 2006-02-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783638468206 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3638468208 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Way towards Reunification - A Revolution in Germany? by : Frederik Boesch
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject History of Europe - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 1,3, International University Bremen, course: Social German History, language: English, abstract: The Way towards Reunification – A Revolution in Germany? If you had asked a person on the street 16 years ago how reasonable he thought reunification of Western and Eastern Germany was, he would have probably laughed at you. However, only one year later, at the end of 1989, reunification was all of the sudden back on the agenda and discussed everywhere around the world. Within less than a year the GDR went through its most severe crisis from which it would never recover. Political scientists and historians would not have imagined that the GDR could dissolve so easily and so quickly. Thousands of citizens were fleeing to the West and literally hundreds of thousands were protesting in the streets of Leipzig and Berlin. The regime was internally divided and had no power to withstand the forces that were bringing its end. About a decade and a half later historians are still discussing the events that led to the dissolution of the GDR regime and are divided about the question whether it can be classified as a revolution or not. In my essay I will start out by looking at the weaknesses that the GDR regime had. There had to be a precondition that made the decline of East Germany possible and I will investigate that. Afterwards I will take a look at three different phases that the upheaval in 1989/90 had, namely the flight, the mass protests, and the Round Table talks. At the end of the paper I will discuss arguments in favour and against the notion that the GDR upheaval was a revolution and conclude with my own evaluation. Most of this essay is based on the book Dissolution by Charles S. Mayer (1997) and a chapter from the book The Rush to German Unity written by Konrad H. Jarausch (1994). Please note that I will most of the time refer to an “upheaval” when I describe the events in the GDR in 1989/90. I will try to avoid the term “revolution” in order to not take any position in favour of or against one historical camp or the other. [...]
Author |
: Konrad Hugo Jarausch |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1571810110 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781571810113 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Uniting Germany by : Konrad Hugo Jarausch
The unification of Germany is the most important change in Central Europe in the last four decades. Understanding this rapid and unforeseen development has raised old fears as well as inspired new hopes. In order to make sense out of the bewildering process and to help both expert and lay readers understand the changes and consequences, an American historian and a German social scientist put together this collection of central texts on German unification, the first of its kind. An invaluable reference tool.
Author |
: Konrad Jarausch |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 1997-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789205718 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789205719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis After Unity by : Konrad Jarausch
The unification of Germany is the most important change in Central Europe in the last four decades. Understanding this rapid and unforeseen development has raised old fears as well as inspired new hopes. In order to make sense out of the bewildering process and to help both expert and lay readers understand the changes and consequences, an American historian and a German social scientist put together this collection of central texts on German unification, the first of its kind. An invaluable reference tool.
Author |
: Konrad H. Jarausch |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 395 |
Release |
: 2009-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400825271 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140082527X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shattered Past by : Konrad H. Jarausch
Broken glass, twisted beams, piles of debris--these are the early memories of the children who grew up amidst the ruins of the Third Reich. More than five decades later, German youth inhabit manicured suburbs and stroll along prosperous pedestrian malls. Shattered Past is a bold reconsideration of the perplexing pattern of Germany's twentieth-century history. Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer explore the staggering gap between the country's role in the terrors of war and its subsequent success as a democracy. They argue that the collapse of Communism, national reunification, and the postmodern shift call for a new reading of the country's turbulent development, one that no longer suggests continuity but rupture and conflict. Comprising original essays, the book begins by reexamining the nationalist, socialist, and liberal master narratives that have dominated the presentation of German history but are now losing their hold. Treated next are major issues of recent debate that suggest how new kinds of German history might be written: annihilationist warfare, complicity with dictatorship, the taming of power, the impact of migration, the struggle over national identity, redefinitions of womanhood, and the development of consumption as well as popular culture. The concluding chapters reflect on the country's gradual transition from chaos to civility. This penetrating study will spark a fresh debate about the meaning of the German past during the last century. There is no single master narrative, no Weltgeist, to be discovered. But there is a fascinating story to be told in many different ways.
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: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:822644117 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis German Unity by :
Author |
: David P. Conradt |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1571810331 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781571810335 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Germany's New Politics by : David P. Conradt
Four years after unification, in the so called 'super election year' of 1994, there were no less than nineteen elections in Germany, culminating in the Bundestag vote on October 16th. This book analyzes the elections, which reveal the state of German unity and the interplay of new forces in post-Cold War Europe, placing them in the wider context of political and economic developments in Germany in the 1990s. (Modern German Studies vol.1).
Author |
: Jeffrey Anderson |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 1999-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521643902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521643900 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis German Unification and the Union of Europe by : Jeffrey Anderson
This book explores the effects of Germany's unification in 1990 on its policies toward the European Union.
Author |
: Jeffrey J. Anderson |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0847690253 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780847690251 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Regional Integration and Democracy by : Jeffrey J. Anderson
This work explores the interrelationship between democracy and regional integration. Although centred in Europe, the volume shifts terms of discussion on integration and democracy by including case studies outside of Europe. It also analyzes the European Union's democratic deficit, the impact of regional integration of national democracy, and the dynamic interactions between democracy and integration elsewhere in the world.