Bowling for Communism : : Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Demshuk, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2022
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 40 b&w halftones, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Can Leipzig Still Be Saved?
  • 1. Survival and Despair in Dystopia
  • 2. Urban Ingenuity in the System
  • 3. Utopian Visions in 1988
  • 4. Urban Ingenuity Underground
  • 5. The City as Stage in Revolution
  • Epilogue: Continuities in “the Saved City”
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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