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Realer Sozialismus als Fürsorgediktatur: zur begrifflichen Einordnung der DDR
Real socialism as welfare dictatorship: reflections on the conceptualization of the GDR
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Abstract "After the peaceful revolution, politicians and scholars intensely debated the Labels which ought to characterize the East German brand of communism. Focusing on its totalitarian features, cold warriors called it an 'Unrechtsstaat' while former supporters of the SED preferred to speak about 'real ex... mehr
"After the peaceful revolution, politicians and scholars intensely debated the Labels which ought to characterize the East German brand of communism. Focusing on its totalitarian features, cold warriors called it an 'Unrechtsstaat' while former supporters of the SED preferred to speak about 'real existing socialism' as a failed experiment. In order to escape this polarization some scholars labeled the GDR a 'modern dictatorship', while yet others talked about an 'educational dictatorship' or a 'commodious dictatorship'. The conceptual challenge to which these efforts responded was the paradoxical character of the SED-regime that was clearly repressive, but also allowed many citizens a fairly normal life. Alluding to the party's emancipatory claims, but contrasting them to its repressive practice, the author therefore suggested the neologism of a 'welfare dictatorship'. The Right' s denounciation of it as too soft and Left's criticism as too harsh suggested that the new term might have hit upon a useful characterization." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
DDR; realer Sozialismus; Fürsorge; Diktatur; SED; Regime; politisches Regime; Diskussion; Begriff; Deutung; Sprache; Selbstdarstellung; Fremdbild; Geschichtswissenschaft; sowjetische Besatzungszone; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; bilaterale Beziehungen; Analyse; vergleichende Forschung; Rhetorik
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
allgemeine Geschichte
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Methode
historisch
Sprache Dokument
Deutsch
Publikationsjahr
2012
Seitenangabe
S. 249-272
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2012) 24
Heftthema
Contemporary history as transatlantic project: the German problem 1960-2010
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)