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OverviewIntellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Once the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the people of East Germany had little use for the dissident intellectuals who had helped bring it down. Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent offers a penetrating look into the circumstances of this fall from grace, unique among the former Communist states.John Torpey traces the dissident intellectuals' fate to the peculiar situation of the East German regime, which sought to build ""socialism in a quarter of a country"" on the anti-fascist foundations of Communist opposition to Nazism. He shows how the regime's unusual history and subnational status helped sustain the East German intelligentsia's conviction that socialism could be reformed and humane-that there was a ""third way"" between Soviet-style socialism and the capitalism that took root in West Germany. How the pursuit of this third way both supported and undermined the regime, and both galvanized and alienated the East German people, becomes clear in Torpey's nuanced analysis. His book makes a powerful contribution to our understanding of the politics of intellectuals during one of the most painful chapters in modern German history.John C. Torpey is currently a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John TorpeyPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Edition: Minnesota Archive Editions ed. Volume: 4 Dimensions: Width: 14.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.400kg ISBN: 9780816625673ISBN 10: 0816625670 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 23 August 1995 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsIntroduction - intellectuals and politics; the making of an East German intelligentsia; intellectuals, the state and opposition, 1956-80; the intelligentsia and the development of opposition in the GDR during the 1980s; the intelligentsia in the socialist denouement, 1989 - exodus and opposition in the East German transformation; the prophets outcast - the end of the GDR and the coming of unification, 1989-90; the abortive revolution continues - East German civil rights activists after unification.ReviewsAuthor InformationJohn Torpey is Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author or editor of several books, including Making Whole What has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006); Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War (edited with Daniel Levy and Max Pensky; London and New York: Verso, 2005); Politics and the Past: On Repairing Historical Injustices (ed.), Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003; Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (co-edited with Jane Caplan), Princeton University Press, 2001; and The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State, Cambridge University Press, 2000. His interests lie broadly in the area of comparative historical sociology and his current research focuses on the problem of ""American exceptionalism."" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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