Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent - 9780816625673

Intellectuals, Socialism, and DissentThe East German Opposition and Its Legacy\nAuthor(s): John C. Torpey\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816625673, 978-0816625673\nSynopsis\nIntellectuals, 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.\n\nOnce 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.\n\nJohn 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\"".