Table of Contents:
  • Introductory notes / Alf Lüdtke
  • Ordinary people, self-energising, and room for manoeuvering: examples from 20th century European dictatorships / Alf Lüdtke
  • The Third Reich: police state or self-policing society? / Peter Lambert
  • Self-reassurance in troubled times: German diaries during the upheavals of 1933 / Michael Wildt
  • Collaboration, complicity, and evasion under Italian fascism / Paul Corner
  • Stalinism 'from below'? : Soviet state, society, and the Great Terror / Kevin McDermott
  • The politics of national language and wartime mobilisation of everyday life in late colonial Korea, 1937-1945 / Kyu Hyun Kim
  • Industrial warriors: labour heroes and everyday life in wartime colonial Korea, 1937-1945 / Michael Kim
  • Consumption and consumerism in the German Democratic Republic / Harald Dehne
  • North Korea and the education of desire: totalitarianism, everyday life, and the making of post-colonial subjectivity / Charles K. Armstrong
  • Comrade Min, women's paid labour, and the centralising party-state: postwar reconstruction in North Korea / Andre Schmid
  • Between autonomy and productivity: the everyday lives of Korean women workers during the Park Chung-hee Era / Won Kim
  • Conscription, collaboration, and self-cutting in rural Senegal during and after World War II / Dennis Galvan
  • The Convention People's Party (CPP) in Ghana, late 1950s to the 1970s : mobilisation for transformation / Richard Rathbone.