TY  - BOOK
AU  - Landsman,Mark
TI  - Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany
T2  - Harvard Historical Studies
SN  - 9780674039926
AV  - HC290 
U1  - 339.470943109045 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Consumption (Economics)-Germany (East)
KW  - Socialism-Germany (East)
KW  - Germany (East)-Economic conditions
KW  - Germany (East)-Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 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 Revisited: The Main Economic Task and the Building of the Berlin Wall -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
N2  - 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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