The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and Wes

Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life i

Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans’ view of socialism during the first decades of the German Demo

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