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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Beyond Uniformity: The Challenge of Historicizing the GDR
The Theoretical Problem of Dictatorship
1. The GDR: A Special Kind of Modern Dictatorship
2. Modernization and Modernization Blockages in GDR Society
3. Care and Coercion: The GDR as Welfare Dictatorship
Mechanisms of Political Repression
4. From Dismantling to Currency Reform: External Origins of the Dictatorship, 1943–1948
5. Foreign Influences on the Dictatorial Development of the GDR, 1949–1955
6. Repression and Tolerance as Methods of Rule in Communist Societies
Means of Social Control
7. Creating State Socialist Governance: The Case of the Deutsche Volkspolizei
8. Food Supply in a Planned Economy: SED Nutrition Policy between Crisis Response and Popular Needs
9. The Myth of Female Emancipation: Contradictions in Women’s Lives
10. The Socialist Glass Ceiling: Limits to Female Careers
Cultural Dimensions of Domination
11. Dictatorship as Discourse: Cultural Perspectives on SED Legitimacy
12. The Fettered Media: Controlling Public Debate
13. Criticism and Censorship: Negotiating Cabaret Performance and Book Production
14. The Pivotal Cadres: Leadership Styles and Self-Images of GDR-Elites
Temporal Transformations
15. Stagnation or Change? Transformations of the Workplace in the GDR
16. The Hitler Youth Generation in the GDR: Insecurities, Ambitions and Dilemmas
17. Reforming Socialism? The Changing of the Guard from Ulbricht to Honecker during the 1960s
18. Mobility and Blockage during the 1970s
Postscript
19. Rethinking the Second German Dictatorship
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
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