The currency of socialism : money and political culture in East Germany / Jonathan R. Zatlin

There is perhaps nothing so commonplace and yet so mystifying as money. But to European communists, money was clearly an instrument of economic exploitation and spiritual alienation. In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan R. Zatlin explores the East German attempt to create a perfect society by elim...

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Hauptverfasser:Zatlin, Jonathan R. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht:Washington, DC : German Historical Institut [u.a.], 2007
Cambridge [u.a.], 2007
Ausgabe:1. publ
Schriftenreihe:Publications of the German Historical Institute
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Making and unmaking money : monetary theory and economic planning in East Germany
Accounting and accountability : financing the planned economy under Honecker, 1971-1980
Parsimony and the prince : crisis and stability, 1980-1985
The currency of decline : the dis--integration of the East German economy, 1986-1989
The vehicle of desire : the Trabant, the Wartburg, and the discipline of demand
Consuming ideology : the Intershops, Genex, and retail trade under Honecker
Appealing to authority : the citizens petitions and the rhetoric of decline
Epilogue : revisiting reunification