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

Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and t

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

"Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans' view of soci

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

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This collection is a most usual reference work containing key documents on the political development of postwar East Ger

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Why do totalitarian propaganda such as those created in Nazi Germany and the former German Democratic Republic initially

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

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