The Socialist Nation of the German Democratic Republic' or The Asymmetry in Nation and Ideology between the Two Germanies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2107498
AutoresCarl Pletsch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, autor de correspondencia)
Año1979
Volumen21
Número3
Páginas323-345
Fecha de publicación1979-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500012998
OpenAlexW2153815803
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas5

This paper is a semiological attempt to derive meaning from the recent reconceptualization of the German nation: the thesis of the separate socialist nation as advanced by the Socialist Unity Party (SED) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Before entering upon the question of how the-socialist nation of the GDR is defined and what this definition means in contrast to the definition of the nation current in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), we may well ask whether it makes any difference. In spite of the furor aroused by this idea in the West German press, non-Germans may legitimately wonder whether it is not silly to quibble over whether to the GDR a separate state or a separate nation

Democracy · Economic history · Epistemology · Federal republic · German · Ideology · Meaning (existential) · Nation state · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · The Republic · Theology · Wonder · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law · Philosophy