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    Dictatorship and demand: the politics of consumerism in East Germany

    Dictatorship and demand: the politics of consumerism in East Germany

    Landsman, Mark, 1966-

    eBook, Electronic resource, Book. English.
    Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press 2005
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    Statement of responsibility: Mark Landsman
    ISBN: 067401698X, 9780674016989
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-287) and index.
    Physical Description: xii, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
    Series: Harvard historical studies ; 147
    Subject: Germany (East) Politics and government.; Consumption (Economics) Germany (East); Germany (East) Economic conditions.; Socialism Germany (East)
    In: ACLS Humanities E-Book.
    Reproduction: Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
    Series Title: Harvard historical studies ; v. 147.; ACLS Humanities E-Book.

    Contents

    1. Production and consumption : establishing priorities
    2. The contest begins: the currency reform, the Berlin Blockade, and the introduction of the HO
    3. The planned and the unplanned: consumer supply and provisioning crisis
    4. The rise, decline and afterlife of the new course
    5. Demand research and the relations between trade and industry
    6. Crisis revisted: the main economic task and the building of the Berlin Wall.