1st Edition
Constructing Peace Conscientious Objectors and the Boundaries of State Power in East Germany in the 1960s
List of Photos
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Church’s Response to Obligatory Military Service
2. Conscientious Objectors Refuse to Serve in the Military
3. Making an Alternative Service for Conscientious Objectors
4. The First Bausoldaten Begin Their Service (and Refuse to tTke the Vow)
5. Navigating the New World of Alternative Service as Bausoldaten
6. Refusing Work Projects
7. Pastoral Care for Military Conscripts
8. Activism as Former Bausoldaten
9. The Second Cohort of Bausoldaten: New Arguments for Old Problems
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
David Doellinger is Professor of History at Western Oregon University. He is the author of Turning Prayers into Protests: Religious-Based Activism and its Challenge to State Power in Socialist Slovakia and East Germany (Central European University Press, 2013).
“This book will become a building block for future histories of religion and socialism, or the church in 20th century Germany, or religion in the Cold War, or a comparative history of pacifist movements in East and West, and a lot more histories I cannot even foresee yet.” – Eli Rubin, Western Michigan University
