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1	Marxism-Leninism's loss of revolutionary momentum : conflict and routinization in the East German State, 1961-1971 / Larsen, Eric, January 1994 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1994. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [328]-334).
2	Die metaphorische Mauer : Eine Untersuchung zu Metaphern in Walter Ulbrichts Rede zum Mauerbau / A Metaphorical Wall : Exploring Metaphors in Walter Ulbricht's Speech on the Building of the Berlin Wall Eriksson Eneslätt, Benjamin January 2022 (has links) The Berlin Wall divided the city for almost 28 years. In June 1961, just two months before the building thereof, Walter Ulbricht said that no one had any intention to build a wall. In August the same year, the wall was built. Ulbricht, one of the most prominent politicians in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), held a speech 5 days after the building of the wall, as an attempt to defend the actions of his government. This thesis focuses on that speech. In this thesis, Walter Ulbricht’s use of language in his speech is analysed using the theory of conceptual metaphors by Lakoff & Johnson. The aim is to investigate how Ulbricht used language to try to defend the actions that made him be called a hypocrite by many. This is done through exploring how certain words can be understood as metaphors and how this could indicate how a person perceives the world. The words Bruder (eng. brother) and Frieden (eng. peace) are focused on, as these were important and central political words at the time. A central part of this thesis is therefore a discussion of how these words were used in the GDR to be able to later compare this to Ulbricht’s own use. The conclusion shows that Bruder is used to highlight the German identity, rather than a “West German” or an “East German” one. Furthermore, Frieden is used to call attention to the perceived differences in politics and everyday life. In addition to this, these two words were found to be used intertwiningly, which could be seen through how Ulbricht emphasised that the brothers were the ones fighting for peace. This leads to yet another metaphor that Ulbricht uses in his speech, namely a wall. DDR DDR-Sprache Bruder Frieden Walter Ulbricht Specific Languages Studier av enskilda språk
3	Red Helmsman: Cybernetics, Economics, and Philosophy in the German Democratic Republic Baker, Kevin T 07 May 2011 (has links) Cybernetics, despite being initially rejected in the Eastern Bloc throughout the 1950s for ideological reasons, rose to a high level of institutional prominence in the 1960s, profoundly influencing state philosophy and economic planning. This thesis is an examination of this transition, charting the development of cybernetics from the object of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands’s (SED) opprobrium to one of the major philosophical currents within the party intelligentsia. East Germany Marxism History of science Economics Cybernetics Philosophy Cold War Information theory Georg Klaus Walter Ulbricht History
4	“It would be better,if some doctors were sent to workin the coal mines”The SED and the medical Intelligentsiabetween 1961 and 1981 Wahl, Markus January 2013 (has links) The relationship between the Socialist Unity Party [SED] and the medical intelligentsia in the German Democratic Republic [GDR] has often been described as one of the most problem-atic for the Republic‟s political vanguard. This thesis discusses this relationship for the two dec-ades after the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961. With the inability of East German workers to leave for West Germany after this event, the GDR was able to enforce their programme of so-cialist development in a new way. Doctors, despite being crucial for this socialist society and its legitimacy, were not excluded from the state‟s radical new policies. However, as files from the former state security apparatus, party and trade union make obvious, doctors were very success-ful in preventing both the ideological conditioning of their community and state interference in the composition of the medical elite. With the examination of the every-day life of the medical intelligentsia, especially in East German hospitals, this thesis contributes to the discussion about the difference between the claims of the socialist party and the realities faced in the healthcare sector. There were a variety of complex reasons for the increasing distance between the state‟s claim and reality, many of which will be analysed in the course of this work. This analysis is, em-bedded in a historical approach, outlined mainly by Mary Fulbrook, which sets the micro-level in the context of the macro-level, considering the correlation between the claim and ideology of the SED, their communication, mechanisms and policies reaching the boundaries of the social con-glomerate of doctors, as well as their reactions, career aspirations and pre-conditions. For the seventies, a whole section is dedicated to exploring the reasons that the medical intelligentsia was one of the main-clients of so-called „human trafficking gangs‟, enabling insight into their situa-tion and the attitude towards the socialist state, which led them to „vote with their feet‟. This the-sis demonstrates, especially for the sixties and seventies, that there is still much potential for fur-ther research, in to the case of the most ideologically unreliable social group in the GDR: the medical intelligentsia. GDR Doctors medical Intelligentsia Healthcare system Socialism Honecker Ulbricht Mecklinger MfS Stasi Secret Police East Germany SED FDGB Socialist Unity Party Germany Modern History
5	Politický systém a socioekonomické proměny v NDR: 1958 - 1968 / Political system and socio-economic changes in the GDR: 1958 - 1968 Rudý, Jakub January 2016 (has links) The main aim of the thesis is to compare (by diachronic historical comparison) the basic aspects of political, economic and social development of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), between the years 1958 and 1963 with the overlap to the year 1968. The milestone between the two periods is the building of the Berlin wall in 1961. In this context, the thesis examines to what extent the inner development in the GDR after 1961 can be seen as (non)continual. In other words, the questions asked are, whether we can see the change of the political regime and socio-economic realities in the development of the country after 1961 as a natural continuation of the previous development, even while changing its means and reformulating its goals, but retaining its original character and focus, or if we need to approach the change of the political regime as a diversion from the previous development and as such to approach it as a qualitatively different regime.
6	Intelligence and the Uprising in East Germany 1953: An Example of Political Intelligence Collins, Steven Morris 08 1900 (has links) In 1950, the leader of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Walter Ulbricht, began a policy of connecting foreign threats with domestic policy failures as if the two were the same, and as if he was not responsible for either. This absolved him of blame for those failures and allowed Ulbricht to define his internal enemies as agents of the western powers. He used the state's secret police force, known as the Stasi, to provide the information that supported his claims of western obstructionism and to intimidate his adversaries. This resulted in a politicization of intelligence whereby Stasi officers slanted information so that it conformed to Ulbricht's doctrine of western interference. Comparisons made of eyewitness' statements to the morale reports filed by Stasi agents show that there was a difference between how the East German worker felt and the way the Stasi portrayed their attitudes to the politburo. Consequently, prior to June 17, 1953, when labor strikes inspired a million East German citizens to rise up against Ulbricht's oppressive government, the politicization of Stasi intelligence caused information over labor unrest to be unreliable at a time of increasing risk to the regime. This study shows the extent of Ulbricht's politicization of Stasi intelligence and its effect on the June 1953 uprising in the German Democratic Republic. Stasi intelligence Walter Ulbricht June 17, 1953 East Germany German Democratic Republic Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit MfS GDR politicization Spy Trials political doctrine Zaisser politburo Berlin Potsdam Halle NGO BStU FDGB SED SMAD VEB History, European History, Modern History, Military Ulbricht, Walter, 1893-1973.
7	Between Interest and Interventionism : Probing the Limits of Foreign Policy along the Tracks of an Extraordinary Case Study : The GDR's Engagement in South Yemen Muller, Miriam Manuela 13 March 2015 (has links) This case study is the first comprehensive analysis of the German Democratic Republic’s activities in South Yemen, the only Marxist state in the Arab World and at times the closest and most loyal ally to the Soviet Union in the Middle East during the Cold War. The dissertation analyzes East German Foreign Policy as a case of Socialist state- and nation-building and in doing so produces one major hypotheses: The case of South Yemen may be considered both, an ‘exceptional case’ and the possible ‘ideal type’ of the ‘general’ of East German foreign policy and thus points to what the GDR’s foreign policy could have been, if it hadn’t been for the numerous restraints of East German foreign-policy-making. The author critically engages with the normative and empirical dimensions of the ‘Limits of Foreign Policy’ by including a constructivist perspective of foreign policy. Apart from the case study itself, the dissertation provides the reader with a thorough overview of forty years of East German foreign policy with a focus on the interests and influence of The Soviet Union as well as the first introduction and methodological approach to East Germany's foreign policy in the Middle East. The empirical side of the analysis rests on archival documents of the German Foreign Office, the German National Archive and the former Ministry of State Security of the GDR. These documents are reviewed and published for the first time and are complemented by personal interviews with contemporary witnesses. The interdisciplinary approach integrates and expands methods of both History and Political Science, applicable to other cases. Conducted research is intended to contribute to academic discourse on South Yemen’s unique history, divided Germany’s role in the Cold War, East German foreign policy, but also the long-term impact of Socialist foreign-policy-making in the Global South which so far has been neglected almost completely in academia. / Graduate / miriam.mueller@fu-berlin.de South Yemen PDRY GDR Foreign Policy Divided Germany Cold War Soviet Union Socialism State-Building Nation-Building Gulf of Aden Crown Colony of Aden British Occupation National Liberation Front Marxism-Leninism Postcolonialism Neocolonialism German Identity Arab Nationalism Arab Socialism Arab Nationalist Movement Al-Hirak Southern Movement Constructivism Socialist Development Global South Middle East Arab Spring Marxist Critical Bab Al-Mandab Socotra Yemeni Socialist Party YSP FLOSY National Liberation Front NLF SED Honecker Ulbricht East Berlin
8	«Avec salutations socialistes» : lettres de plaintes et relations socio-étatiques en République démocratique allemande, 1953-1967 Auclair, Nadine 08 1900 (has links) Ce mémoire de maîtrise consiste en une analyse des dynamiques relationnelles entre l'État de la République démocratique allemande et ses citoyen·ne·s à travers un échantillon de lettres de plaintes envoyées entre 1953 et 1967 concernant les problèmes liés au logement. Les plaignant·e·s ont adopté des « valeurs socialistes » tout au long de leurs discours pour justifier la légitimité de leurs demandes et ils ont utilisé les mots et les principes mêmes de l'État pour exiger des actions. Ce mémoire met en lumière non seulement ces différentes stratégies en utilisant une approche « par le bas », mais examine aussi examine également la réaction de l'État. On remarque notamment que les réponses envoyées par l’État aux plaignant·e·s étaient en général plus positives dans les années 1960 et 1950, ce qui montre d’une part une évolution dans le rapport entre l’État et la société, mais aussi d’autre part un certain changement quant à l’application même des principes socialistes. On remarque en outre que, dans les années 1960, le gouvernement de l’Est a davantage pris soin d'adapter la gestion de ses politiques intérieures aux besoins de la population. L'analyse de ces lettres se situe à la croisée de deux méthodes ; tout d'abord, une analyse discursive a permis de saisir les stratégies d'écriture récurrentes par lesquelles la population a tenté d’influencer l’État. Puis, une analyse statistique des réponses de l’État croisée à l’évolution des politiques intérieures a permis de saisir les changements d’attitude du gouvernement envers sa population. / This master’s thesis analyzes the dynamics between the German Democratic Republic and its citizens through complaint letters that East Germans sent to the State between 1953 and 1967 regarding housing problems. It argues that the complainants adopted “socialist values” throughout their discourses as a way of justifying the legitimacy of their complaints. In other words, they used the discourse and principles of the state against it in order to demand action and a resolution to their problems or concerns. This thesis not only highlight these various strategies, utilizing a “history from below” approach, but it also investigates the state’s reaction to the complaints of its citizens. It argues that the state responded overall better in the 1960s as it did in the 1950s, showing evolution in the relationship between state and society as well as a shift in the state’s way to understand socialism. By the 1960s the East German government had had time to slowly adapt its domestic politics towards the population’s needs. The analysis of these letters is at the crossroads of two methods: First I employ a discursive analysis that allows me to identify the recurring strategies by which the state and its citizens sought to influence each other. Second, I use a statistical analysis of the State’s responses coupled with an examination of domestic politics that allows me to capture the changing attitude of the government towards its population. République démocratique allemande RDA socialisme État société plaintes Eingaben analyse du discours écriture stratégique identité discursive épistolaire protestation logement reconstruction Walter Ulbricht Wilhelm Pieck Mur de Berlin Aufbau nouvelle politique économique NÖS German Democratic Republic GDR socialism state society complaint discourse analysis strategic writing discursive identity letter writing protest housing Berlin Wall new economic policy Allemands de l'Est East-Germans Allemagne de l'Est East Germany

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