Mike Dennis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4074965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Dennis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Dennis |
| SIGNATURE | DENNIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wolverhampton |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-5810-561X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Securing the Sports ‘Miracle’
Given the political and social importance of East Germany's elite sports system, the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) constructed a comprehensive and invasive system of surveillance to protect the clandestine state doping programme, to prevent flight to the West by sportspeople, to ensure the smooth running of sports events, and in general to help maintain the country's status as a sporting superpower. While the Stasi enjoyed much success in it…
State and Minorities in Communist East Germany
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 (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, ‘guest’ workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich Honecker’s rule over the communist system. It explores how they were able to resist persecution an…
Behind the Iron Curtain
Sport is employed as a lens through which one can understand better the social and political inner workings of dictatorship. This paper treats sport as a cultural institution within GDR (German Democratic Republic) society and sets out to complement the two broad paradigms used to study East Germany: the first, a broad approach under the umbrella of ‘Cold War histories’ and ‘totalitarianism theory’, usually focusing on the few; the second, a so-c…
Eva Kolinsky
Working under Hammer and Sickle
When the Iron Curtain finally lifted, one of the many surprises was the revelation that over 59,000 Vietnamese were employed in GDR factories, by far the largest contingent of foreign workers in the country. Why their number had escalated from a mere 1,500 at the beginning of the 1980s and the kind of lives they had led in the niches of their hostels was terra incognita for most East Germans. Drawing on pioneer research by Eva Kolinsky and on a s…
Solar thermal energy systems in Australia
Australia has developed world leading solar thermal technologies, with only very low national market penetration. Domestic solar water heating is the most common solar thermal instrument, with around 5% of homes using it and most of these systems are conventional flat plate thermosyphon systems. Other low temperature solar thermal research includes solar crop drying, solar ponds and solar air heating but all on a small scale. There is a worldwide…
Surviving the Stasi
This is a revised and updated version of a paper originally presented at a workshop in Stafford in February 2004 co-organised by the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Education and Research, Staffordshire University, and the History and Governance Research Institute of the University of Wolverhampton
United and Divided
The system transformation after German unification in 1990 constituted an experiment on an unprecedented scale. At no point in history had one state attempted to redesign another without conquest, bloodshed or coercion but by treaties, public policy and bureaucratic processes. Unification was achieved by erasing the eastern political and economic model. However, in the meantime it has become clear that the same cannot be said about social transfo…
United and Divided
The system transformation after German unification in 1990 constituted an experiment on an unprecedented scale. At no point in history had one state attempted to redesign another without conquest, bloodshed or coercion but by treaties, public policy and bureaucratic processes. Unification was achieved by erasing the eastern political and economic model. However, in the meantime it has become clear that the same cannot be said about social transfo…
Akademische Elite und kommunistische Diktatur
Journal Article Akademische Elite und kommunistische Diktatur: Die östdeutsche Hochschullehrerschaft in der Ulbricht-Ära Ralph Jessen Get access Mike Dennis Mike Dennis University of Wolverhampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1368–1369, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1368 Published: 01 November 2000
Family Policy and Family Function in the German Democratic Republic
Although the family was by no means terra incognita before the collapse of the GDR (see, Helwig, 1987, and Obertreis, 1986), the publication of key statistical data and research results was subject to strict political control in order to prevent any damage to the SED regime's claim that its family policy demonstrated the superiority of 'real socialism' over exploitative capitalism. Research was also impeded by financial constraints and by methodo…
The east German family
The incorporation of the GDR into the old Federal Republic has been accompanied by some far‐reaching changes to the pattern of family life in the five new Länder. These changes found their most vivid expression in a precipitous fall of the marriage, divorce and birth rates. The paper traces these developments and considers whether they signal an irreversible transformation of the east German family. It concludes that despite growing convergence w…
Social and Economic Modernization in Eastern Germany from Honecker to Kohl
The creation and development of the administrative-command economic mechanism 1945-1963 attempts at reform 1963-1970 (the era of the New Economic Mechanism) recentralization under Honecker (1971-81) the economic modernization programme (1977/78-80) the failure of the modernization programme (1988-1990) the reconstruction of East German society and economy (1990-1991)
Social and economic change in eastern Germany
Economic Problems of German Unification
A Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books on the Collapse of the GDR and the Process of German Unification 1991-1994
A Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books On the Collapse of the Gdr and the Process of German Unification 1991-1994
The Collapse of the German Democratic Republic
Economic Problems of German Unification
A Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books On the Collapse of the Gdr and the Process of German Reunification 1989 - 1991
A Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books in the Social Sciences and Humanities Published in the German Democratic Republic in 1986 and 1987
German Democratic Republic
Introduction and Update
Economic and Social Challenge of the 1980S
MIKE DENNIS (Dudley, U.K.) ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHALLENGE OF THE 1980S* 1. The Economic Crisis of the early 1980s In his second most frequently quoted statement in the 1970s (after the 'no taboos' speech of 1971), SED General Secretary . Essentially, the GDR as a major importer of oil and an exporter of manufactured goods had been
A Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books in the Social Sciences and Humanities Published in the German Democra Tic Republic in 1985
Securing the Sports ‘Miracle’
Given the political and social importance of East Germany's elite sports system, the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) constructed a comprehensive and invasive system of surveillance to protect the clandestine state doping programme, to prevent flight to the West by sportspeople, to ensure the smooth running of sports events, and in general to help maintain the country's status as a sporting superpower. While the Stasi enjoyed much success in it…
Working under Hammer and Sickle
When the Iron Curtain finally lifted, one of the many surprises was the revelation that over 59,000 Vietnamese were employed in GDR factories, by far the largest contingent of foreign workers in the country. Why their number had escalated from a mere 1,500 at the beginning of the 1980s and the kind of lives they had led in the niches of their hostels was terra incognita for most East Germans. Drawing on pioneer research by Eva Kolinsky and on a s…
Surviving the Stasi
This is a revised and updated version of a paper originally presented at a workshop in Stafford in February 2004 co-organised by the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Education and Research, Staffordshire University, and the History and Governance Research Institute of the University of Wolverhampton
Behind the Iron Curtain
Sport is employed as a lens through which one can understand better the social and political inner workings of dictatorship. This paper treats sport as a cultural institution within GDR (German Democratic Republic) society and sets out to complement the two broad paradigms used to study East Germany: the first, a broad approach under the umbrella of ‘Cold War histories’ and ‘totalitarianism theory’, usually focusing on the few; the second, a so-c…
The east German family
The incorporation of the GDR into the old Federal Republic has been accompanied by some far‐reaching changes to the pattern of family life in the five new Länder. These changes found their most vivid expression in a precipitous fall of the marriage, divorce and birth rates. The paper traces these developments and considers whether they signal an irreversible transformation of the east German family. It concludes that despite growing convergence w…
A Selected Bibliography of Ar Ticles and Books in the Social Sciences Published in the Germa n dEmocra Tic Republic in 1983
A Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books in the Social Sciences and Humanities Published in the German Democratic Republic in 1984
A Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books in the Social Sciences and Humanities Published in the German Democra Tic Republic in 1985
Introduction and Update
Economic and Social Challenge of the 1980S
MIKE DENNIS (Dudley, U.K.) ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHALLENGE OF THE 1980S* 1. The Economic Crisis of the early 1980s In his second most frequently quoted statement in the 1970s (after the 'no taboos' speech of 1971), SED General Secretary . Essentially, the GDR as a major importer of oil and an exporter of manufactured goods had been
German Democratic Republic
A Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books in the Social Sciences and Humanities Published in the German Democratic Republic in 1986 and 1987
A Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books On the Collapse of the Gdr and the Process of German Reunification 1989 - 1991
Economic Problems of German Unification
A Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books on the Collapse of the GDR and the Process of German Unification 1991-1994
A Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books On the Collapse of the Gdr and the Process of German Unification 1991-1994
The Collapse of the German Democratic Republic
Economic Problems of German Unification
Social and Economic Modernization in Eastern Germany from Honecker to Kohl
The creation and development of the administrative-command economic mechanism 1945-1963 attempts at reform 1963-1970 (the era of the New Economic Mechanism) recentralization under Honecker (1971-81) the economic modernization programme (1977/78-80) the failure of the modernization programme (1988-1990) the reconstruction of East German society and economy (1990-1991)
Social and economic change in eastern Germany
Family Policy and Family Function in the German Democratic Republic
Although the family was by no means terra incognita before the collapse of the GDR (see, Helwig, 1987, and Obertreis, 1986), the publication of key statistical data and research results was subject to strict political control in order to prevent any damage to the SED regime's claim that its family policy demonstrated the superiority of 'real socialism' over exploitative capitalism. Research was also impeded by financial constraints and by methodo…
The east German family
The incorporation of the GDR into the old Federal Republic has been accompanied by some far‐reaching changes to the pattern of family life in the five new Länder. These changes found their most vivid expression in a precipitous fall of the marriage, divorce and birth rates. The paper traces these developments and considers whether they signal an irreversible transformation of the east German family. It concludes that despite growing convergence w…
Akademische Elite und kommunistische Diktatur
Journal Article Akademische Elite und kommunistische Diktatur: Die östdeutsche Hochschullehrerschaft in der Ulbricht-Ära Ralph Jessen Get access Mike Dennis Mike Dennis University of Wolverhampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1368–1369, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1368 Published: 01 November 2000
United and Divided
The system transformation after German unification in 1990 constituted an experiment on an unprecedented scale. At no point in history had one state attempted to redesign another without conquest, bloodshed or coercion but by treaties, public policy and bureaucratic processes. Unification was achieved by erasing the eastern political and economic model. However, in the meantime it has become clear that the same cannot be said about social transfo…
United and Divided
The system transformation after German unification in 1990 constituted an experiment on an unprecedented scale. At no point in history had one state attempted to redesign another without conquest, bloodshed or coercion but by treaties, public policy and bureaucratic processes. Unification was achieved by erasing the eastern political and economic model. However, in the meantime it has become clear that the same cannot be said about social transfo…
Solar thermal energy systems in Australia
Australia has developed world leading solar thermal technologies, with only very low national market penetration. Domestic solar water heating is the most common solar thermal instrument, with around 5% of homes using it and most of these systems are conventional flat plate thermosyphon systems. Other low temperature solar thermal research includes solar crop drying, solar ponds and solar air heating but all on a small scale. There is a worldwide…
Surviving the Stasi
This is a revised and updated version of a paper originally presented at a workshop in Stafford in February 2004 co-organised by the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Education and Research, Staffordshire University, and the History and Governance Research Institute of the University of Wolverhampton
Eva Kolinsky
Working under Hammer and Sickle
When the Iron Curtain finally lifted, one of the many surprises was the revelation that over 59,000 Vietnamese were employed in GDR factories, by far the largest contingent of foreign workers in the country. Why their number had escalated from a mere 1,500 at the beginning of the 1980s and the kind of lives they had led in the niches of their hostels was terra incognita for most East Germans. Drawing on pioneer research by Eva Kolinsky and on a s…
Behind the Iron Curtain
Sport is employed as a lens through which one can understand better the social and political inner workings of dictatorship. This paper treats sport as a cultural institution within GDR (German Democratic Republic) society and sets out to complement the two broad paradigms used to study East Germany: the first, a broad approach under the umbrella of ‘Cold War histories’ and ‘totalitarianism theory’, usually focusing on the few; the second, a so-c…
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