Dictatorship and Demand : : The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany / / Mark LANDSMAN.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: LANDSMAN, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Historical Studies ; 147
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1. Production and Consumption: Establishing Priorities --; CHAPTER 2. The Contest Begins: The Currency Reform, the Berlin Blockade, and the Introduction of the HO --; CHAPTER 3. The Planned and the Unplanned: Consumer Supply and Provisioning Crisis --; CHAPTER 4. The Rise, Decline, and Afterlife of the New Course --; CHAPTER 5. Demand Research and the Relations between Trade and Industry --; CHAPTER 6. Crisis Revisited: The Main Economic Task and the Building of the Berlin Wall --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674039926; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674039926
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mark LANDSMAN.

An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle.