Browsing Max Weber Programme (MWP) by Subject "East Germany"

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Title: A Good Buy – If You Can Get One. Purchasing cars under socialist conditions Author(s): GATEJEL, Luminita Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper gives a panoramic mapping of the infamous socialist ‘economy of shortages’ (Kornai) as it was lived and experienced by ordinary socialist citizens. It starts out by framing the general conditions under which ...
Title: Transforming Memories: Workers’ Recollection of the Socialist Regimes in East Germany and Hungary Author(s): BARTHA, Eszter Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyzes and compares workers’ memories of the late socialist regimes in East Germany and Hungary. It presents the results of an oral history project conducted in two factories, Rába MVG in Győr (Hungary) and ...
Title: Innocent Victims of Red KZs? West German Representations of Soviet Internment 1945-55 Author(s): BEATTIE, Andrew Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on Soviet internment camps established in eastern Germany in the wake of the Second World War. Since 1990 there has been heated debate about who was in the camps and ...

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