Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship (eBook)

Alf Lüdtke is retired from the Max-Planck-Institute for History, in Göttingen, Germany, and the University of Erfurt, Germany, where he is now Honorarprofessor. He has held Visiting Professorships at universities in the U.S. (Princeton University, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Israel, and South Korea. He researches domination and violence, transformations of industrial work, the emergence of 'modern' forms of the visual, and the history of the everyday. Recent publications include: Unsettling History: Archiving and Narrating in Historiography (co-editor); Istorija povsednevnosti v Germanii; Kolonialgeschichten (co-editor); and Polizei, Gewalt und Staat im 20: Jahrhundert (co-editor).

Cover 1
Contents 6
Acknowledgements 8
Notes on Contributors 10
Part I: Scope and Perspectives 14
1 Introductory Notes 15
2 Ordinary People, Self-Energising, and Room for Manoeuvering: Examples from 20th Century Europe 25
Part II: Dictatorial and Colonial Regimes 1930–1960: Practices of Domination and Modes of Appropriation 47
3 The Third Reich: Police State or Self-Policing Society? 48
4 Self-Reassurance in Troubled Times: German Diaries During the Upheavals of 1933 66
5 Collaboration, Complicity, and Evasion Under Italian Fascism 86
6 Stalinism ‘From Below’?: Soviet State, Society, and the Great Terror 105
7 The Politics of National Language and Wartime Mobilisation of Everyday Life in Late Colonial Korea, 1937–1945 123
8 Industrial Warriors: Labour Heroes and Everyday Life in Wartime Colonial Korea, 1937–1945 137
9 Consumption and Consumerism in the German Democratic Republic 158
Part III: Postcolonial Settings 1950–1990: Dimensions of Subjectivity 174
10 North Korea and the Education of Desire: Totalitarianism, Everyday Life, and the Making of Post-Colonial Subjectivity 175
11 Comrade Min, Women’s Paid Labour, and the Centralising Party-State: Postwar Reconstruction in North Korea 194
12 Between Autonomy and Productivity: The Everyday Lives of Korean Women Workers During the Park Chung-hee Era 212
13 Conscription, Collaboration, and Self-Cutting in Rural Senegal During and After World War II 228
14 The Convention People’s Party (CPP) in Ghana, Late 1950s to the 1970s: Mobilisation for Transformation 237
Index 260