The Official Concept of the Nation in the Former GDR: Theory, Pragmatism and the Search for Legitimacy Book

	Preface
	Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
	The East German dilemma	2
	Policy-making in the GDR	5
	The role of theorists in the GDR	6
2	The fight to preserve the unity of the German nation	13
	The divided nation	13
	The SED, the nation and the Berlin Wall	19
3	The unity of the nation in doubt	33
	Challenges to Ulbricht's line	33
	The new socialist constitution	44
	The challenge of Brandt's Ostpolitik	48
4	The 'socialist nation' in the GDR	67
	The invention of a 'socialist nation' in the GDR	67
	The consequences of the new Nationskonzept	80
5	The 'socialist German nation' - from consolidation to crisis	107
	Nationality: German; citizenship: GDR	108
	The SED: 'heir to everything progressive in the history of the German people'	120
	The return of the nation to the political agenda	125
6	Conclusion	145
	The paradoxes of official nationalism in the GDR	146
	The four phases of the official line	149
	The nature of East German identity	152
	West German policy regarding the German nation	153
	The case of the GDR and nation-building theory	155
	Bibliography	161