State and Minorities in Communist East Germany

by Mike Dennis

Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (JehovahOCOs Witnesses, Jews, OCyguestOCO workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich HoneckerOCOs rule over the communist system. It explores how they were able to resist persecution and surveillance by instruments of the state, thus illustrating the limits on the power of the East German dictatorship and shedding light on the notion of authority as social practice."

254 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Professor of Modern German History, School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications, University of Wolverhampton.

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