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.