Title Local Lives, Parallel Histories : Villagers and Everyday Life in the Divided Germany

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in German History Ser Studies in German history (Oxford University Press) Contents Intro -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Local Lives -- A History of Two Villages -- A Comparative History of Life in the Divided Germany -- A Local History of Everyday Life -- Challenging the Rural-Urban Divide -- The Case Studies: Neukirch and Ebersbach -- Sources -- Chapter Outline -- 1. Modern Villagers: Rurality, Urbanity, and the Remaking of the German Village -- Introduction Reforming the Rural: Backwardness and Modernization, 1945 to Late 1960s -- Villages into Modern Centres: 'Planning Euphoria' and High Modernism, Mid-1960s to Late 1970s -- The Return of the Rural: Managing Crisis, Late 1970s to 1989 -- Conclusion -- 2. (Un)Making Community: Privacy and Communal Life in the Village -- Introduction -- Memories of the Old Community -- Ebersbach: Unmaking Community -- Neukirch: Pragmatic Community -- Conclusion -- 3. Strangers in the Village: The Marginalization of Newcomers in the Rural Community -- Introduction 'The First Strangers': Ethnic German Refugees after the Second World War -- Curious Presences: Foreign Workers since the Late 1950s -- Newcomers and 'Old Ebersbachers': Urban Commuters since the 1960s -- Conclusion -- 4. The Cold War in the Village: Rural Germans, Division, and the German 'Other' -- Introduction -- The Imaginary West: Longing for Consumer Affluence in Neukirch -- The Imaginary East: Perceptions of the GDR in Ebersbach -- Worlds Collide: German-German Encounters during the Wende -- Conclusion -- 5. Give-and-Take Politics: Participation and Protest in the Village -- Introduction Socialist Activism in the Village: The Valtentalsee Resort -- Grass-Roots Democracy and Local Activism_ The Youth Centre in Ebersbach -- State Crisis and Protest: The Vegetable Plots of the AWG -- Protest and the Limits of Local Activism_ The Illegal Crossing -- Conclusion -- 6. Beyond Nostalgia: Local History and Social Change in the Divided and Reunified Germany -- Introduction -- Progress and Collective Achievements: Emerging Local Histories until 1990 -- Past, Present, and Future: Local Histories since 1990 -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Towards a Local History of the Divided Germany Summary Thirty years after German reunification, we still know little about what division meant to Germans who lived far from divided Berlin or the inner-German border. This work uses oral history interviews and archival evidence to compare how villagers in East and West experienced the two very different social and political systems in their localities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 27, 2020) Subject Villages -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Regional disparities Politics and government Rural conditions SUBJECT Germany (East) -- Rural conditions Germany (West) -- Rural conditions Germany (East) -- Politics and government -- 20th century Germany (West) -- Politics and government -- 20th century Subject Germany Germany (East) Germany (West) Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192598257 0192598252

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