Word: gruner
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Though some, like judge Erika Gruner, spring from proletariat homes, they have all in some way risen to the highest occupational or intellectual rungs of the country. The reader should therefore not be surprised that many of those Borneman interviewed mourn the foregone possibilities of socialism and the progress left behind. On the positive side, the lean toward intellectuals blesses this book with an overview of East German society to which the working class might not have had access...
Bourneman emphasizes that virtually all of his interviewees separated themselves from the bureaucratic evils of the state. He includes plenty of emotional and philosophical inferences to prove this point, and they strengthen this book by making these though processes accessible. "Frau Gruner's socialism always exhibited a critical distance," Borneman writes. "She learned to be skeptical of any form of established wisdom...