State and Minorities in Communist East Germany SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies

State and Minorities in Communist East Germany SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian StudiesBased 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 (Jehovahs Witnesses, Jews, guest workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich Honeckers rule over the communist system. It explores how they were able to resist persecution and

Confucianism contains much that can promote an ethic of gender parity

With case-studies from eighteen different countries this volume presents a rich panorama of local histories

"The gentleman Abstract Expressionist

uses Terry's personal memories to tell young Jakub's story

classical commentary

New Practitioner Profiles provide real-world insights into human services

This book focuses on the historical development of a key component of Jung's thought-the quest for wholeness-and shows how it functions as the ultimate concern of his psychotherapeutic system

it explores such current topics as the scope of budgeting

learning difficulties

within an overall narrative of his initial problematic search for solidarity

Smuggled out of the country

while Cronenberg's focus is on graphic depictions of mutilation