"This is not a Politburo, but a madhouse," The post World War II Sovietization of East Germany up to the 1953 worker's uprising.
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The Making of the GDR, 1945-53: From Antifascism to Stalinism
Introduction: The two traditions Chapter 1: Eastern Germany at 'Zero Hour' Chapter 2: Antifascist committees and factory councils Chapter 3: The rebirth of the KPD and SPD Chapter 4: Denazification and Reconstruction Chapter 5: The Socialist Unity Party Chapter 6: Between popular politics and communist dictatorship Chapter 7: The stalinisation of the SED Chapter 8: Workers party versus Working Class Conclusion
The Tsadik and His Soul’s Sparks: From Kabbalah to Hasidism
The present study shows the continuity between the Safedian Kabbalistic view of the relations between the sparks of a certain soul, and the Hasidic theory, that was conceived of as innovated by and characteristic of 18th century Hasidism, as to the responsibility of the Tsadik for the sparks that belongs to his soul. In the two literatures, the rescue of a spark of one's soul is related to the beautiful captive woman that is conceived of as an externalization of an inner dimension of the righteous person, immersed in a shell.