Bowling for Communism : : Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany / / Andrew Demshuk.
Bowling for Communism illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 Revolution by exploring acts of "urban ingenuity" amidst catastrophic urban decay. Andrew Demshuk profiles the creative activism of local communist offici...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Preface -- |t List of Abbreviations -- |t Introduction: Can Leipzig Still Be Saved? -- |t 1. Survival and Despair in Dystopia -- |t 2. Urban Ingenuity in the System -- |t 3. Utopian Visions in 1988 -- |t 4. Urban Ingenuity Underground -- |t 5. The City as Stage in Revolution -- |t Epilogue: Continuities in “the Saved City” -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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520 | |a Bowling for Communism illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 Revolution by exploring acts of "urban ingenuity" amidst catastrophic urban decay. Andrew Demshuk profiles the creative activism of local communist officials who, with the help of scores of volunteers, constructed a palatial bowling alley without Berlin's knowledge or approval. In a city mired in disrepair, civic pride overcame resentment against a regime loathed for corruption, Stasi spies, and the Berlin wall.Reconstructing such episodes through interviews and obscure archival materials, Demshuk shows how the public square functioned in Leipzig before the fall of communism. Hardly detached or inept, local officials worked around centralized failings to build a more humane city. And hardly disengaged, residents engaged in black market construction to patch up their surroundings.Because such "urban ingenuity" was premised on weakness in the centralized regime, the dystopian cityscape evolved from being merely a "idian grievance to the backdrop for revolution. If, by their actions, officials were demonstrating that the regime was irrelevant, and if, in their own experiences, locals only attained basic repairs outside official channels, why should anyone have mourned the system when it was overthrown? | ||
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588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) | |
650 | 0 | |a Architecture and state |z Germany (East). | |
650 | 0 | |a City planning |x Political aspects |z Germany |z Leipzig |x History |y 20th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Communism and architecture |z Germany |z Leipzig. | |
650 | 0 | |a Urban renewal |x Political aspects |z Germany |z Leipzig. | |
650 | 0 | |a Urban renewal |z Germany |z Leipzig |x Citizen participation. | |
650 | 0 | |a Urban renewal |z Germany |z Leipzig |x History |y 20th century. | |
650 | 4 | |a History. | |
650 | 4 | |a Soviet & East European History. | |
650 | 4 | |a Urban Studies. | |
650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism. |2 bisacsh | |
653 | |a East Germany, 1989 Revolution, urban planning, civic initiative, late Communism. | ||
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