Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2011
Pages: 85-103
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349294183
Full citation:
, "The diminishing relevance of ostalgie 20 years after reunification", in: After the Berlin wall, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
The diminishing relevance of ostalgie 20 years after reunification
pp. 85-103
in: Katharina Gerstenberger, Jana Evans Braziel (eds), After the Berlin wall, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Abstract
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany marked the end of the repressive, communist regime of East Germany (hereafter German Democratic Republic, GDR) and offered prospects for a more hopeful future for its former citizens. Former East German citizens could now take advantage of a variety of personal and civic freedoms. Integration into the larger, more dynamic West German economy and its substantial welfare state seemed likely to foster greater economic opportunity and raise living standards. Throughout the 1990s, the German government poured billions of marks into the former GDR to help transform and modernize its economy and promote social development.
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2011
Pages: 85-103
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349294183
Full citation:
, "The diminishing relevance of ostalgie 20 years after reunification", in: After the Berlin wall, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011