Don't need no thought control : western culture in East Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall /

The fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state. Meanwhile, comparatively little attention has been paid to the cultural dimension of these dramatic events, particularly the role played by Western mass me...

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Main Author: Horten, Gerd, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2020.
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