The people's state : East German society from Hitler to Honecker /
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : the people's paradox
- I: Visions of the good society (and how they were not realised in practice)
- 2. The East German social revolutions : violence, utopia and consumer socialism
- 3. Citizens at home
- 4. Citizens at play : leisure
- 5. Matters of life and death
- 6. Youth
- 7. Gender
- II: Class in a classless society: power, work and social inequality
- 8. The withering away of the state? Ruling elites
- 9. Cultural capital : from bourgeoisie to socialist intelligentsia
- 10. The un-making of the German working class (and peasantry)
- III: the participatory dictatorship
- 11. The honeycomb state : the benign and malign diffusion of power
- 12. In place of a public sphere? 'Discussion', cultures and subcultures
- 13. The people's own voices? The culture of complaint and the privatisation of protest.