Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic 1469606771, 9781469606774

Stasi Hell or Workers' Paradise - Socialism in the German Democratic Republic, What Can We Learn from It 9780955822834

An insiders' account of what life in the German Democratic Repubic (East Germany) was really like. The book offers

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Research And Technology In The Former German Democratic Republic 9780367301194, 0813384001, 9780367285739

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Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It 9780955822865

Much has been written about how awful the German Democratic Republic supposedly was: a people imprisoned by a wall and s

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Representing Iran in East Germany: Ideology and the Media in the German Democratic Republic 9781838600716, 9781838600747, 9781838600730

Economic and political relations with Iran were a primary concern for the German Democratic Republic leadership and domi

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Sun, Sex and Socialism: Cuba in the German Imaginary 9781442686922

Through analysis of cultural production that often countered governmental intentions for official diplomacy, Jennifer Ru

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Non-Democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship and Democratization 9781137486301

Since the nineteenth century, there has been a slow transformation in the nature of the norms that regulate political co

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Prussia in the Historical Culture of the German Democratic Republic: Communists and Kings (Studies in German History) 9780192689948, 2022937571, 9780192865908, 0192689940

No example demonstrates the fluidity of the past within the German Democratic Republic more powerfully than the history

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Four-Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic [1 ed.] 1800730004, 9781800730007

As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were emp

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Government of Edward Schreyer: Democratic Socialism in Manitoba 9780773561007

The Government of Edward Schreyer offers a challenging reassessment of the extent to which political parties can and do

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Democratic Socialism in Jamaica: The Political Movement and Social Transformation in Dependent Capitalism 9781400886074

The work includes a detailed historical account of the Manley years, focusing on shifting relations between contending s

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