Dictatorship and Demand : : The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany / / 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.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard Historical Studies ;
147 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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