Dictatorship and demand : the politics of consumerism in East Germany /

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Annotation 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 strug...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Landsman, Mark, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Series:Harvard historical studies ; 147.
Subjects:
Consumption (Economics) > Germany (East)
Socialism > Germany (East)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
Consumption (Economics)
Economic history.
Politics and government
Socialism.
Consumentisme.
Binnenlandse politiek.
Koude Oorlog.
Germany (East) > Economic conditions.
Germany (East) > Politics and government.
Allemagne (Est) > Politique et gouvernement.
Germany (East)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Production and consumption : establishing priorities
  • The contest begins: the currency reform, the Berlin Blockade, and the introduction of the HO
  • The planned and the unplanned: consumer supply and provisioning crisis
  • The rise, decline and afterlife of the new course
  • Demand research and the relations between trade and industry
  • Crisis revisted: the main economic task and the building of the Berlin Wall.

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