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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Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic: Production and Reception (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 163) 1571139168, 9781571139160

Approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, questioning the assumption tha

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Dissident Marxism and Utopian Eco-socialism in the German Democratic Republic: The Intellectual Legacies of Rudolf Bahro, Wolfgang Harich, and Robert Havemann (Historical Materialism Book, 306) 9004687807, 9789004687806

In the 1970s, several members of the DDR opposition began to investigate the limits to unrestrained economic growth. The

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Dissident Marxism and Utopian Eco-socialism in the German Democratic Republic: The Intellectual Legacies of Rudolf Bahro, Wolfgang Harich, and Robert Havemann (Historical Materialism Book, 306) 9004687807, 9789004687806

In the 1970s, several members of the DDR opposition began to investigate the limits to unrestrained economic growth. The

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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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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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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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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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