Konrad H. Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Studien in Potsdam, Germany.

• PrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Beyond Uniformity: The Challenge of Historicizing the GDRKonrad H. JarauschPART I: THE THEORETICAL PROBLEM OF DICTATORSHIPChapter 1. The GDR: A Special Kind of Modern DictatorshipJürgen KockaChapter 2. Modernization and Modernization Blockages in GDR SocietyDetlef PollackChapter 3. Care and Coercion: The GDR as Welfare DictatorshipKonrad H. JarauschPART II: MECHANISMS OF POLITICAL REPRESSIONChapter 4. From Dismantling to Currency Reform: External Origins of the Dictatorship, 1943-1948Jochen LauferChapter 5. Foreign Influences on the Dictatorial Development of the GDR, 1949-1955Michael LemkeChapter 6. Repression and Tolerance as Methods of Rule in Communist SocietiesMario Keßler and Thomas KleinPART III: MEANS OF SOCIAL CONTROLChapter 7. Creating State Socialist Governance: The Case of the Deutsche VolkspolizeiThomas LindenbergerChapter 8. Food Supply in a Planned Economy: SED Nutrition Policy between Crisis Response and Popular NeedsBurghard Ciesla and Patrice G. PoutrusChapter 9. The Myth of Female Emancipation: Contradictions in Women's LivesLeonore Ansorg and Renate HürtgenChapter 10. The Socialist Glass Ceiling: Limits to Female CareersDagmar Langenhan and Sabine RoßPART IV: CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF DOMINATIONChapter 11. Dictatorship as Discourse: Cultural Perspectives on SED LegitimacyMartin SabrowChapter 12. The Fettered Media: Controlling Public DebateSimone Barck, Christoph Classen and Thomas HeimannChapter 13. Criticism and Censorship: Negotiating Cabaret Performance and Book ProductionSylvia Klötzer and Siegfried LokatisChapter 14. The Pivotal Cadres: Leadership Styles and Self-Images of GDR-ElitesArnd Bauerkämper and Jürgen DanyelPART V: TEMPORAL TRANSFORMATIONSChapter 15. Stagnation or Change? Transformations of the Workplace in the GDRPeter HübnerChapter 16. The Hitler Youth Generation in the GDR: Insecurities, Ambitions and DilemmasDorothee WierlingChapter 17. Reforming Socialism? The Changing of the Guard from Ulbricht to Honecker during the 1960sMonika KaiserChapter 18. Mobility and Blockage during the 1970sRalph JessenPART VI: POSTSCRIPTChapter 19. Rethinking the Second German DictatorshipChristoph KleßmannSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

"The essays presented display a realm of vibrant historical inquiry. Many of the chapters significantly expand our understanding of the complexity of GDR society."  · Central European History"This is certainly the best single volume on the social and cultural history of the GDR in English, and indeed ranks highly among works in German as well."  · German Politics"What emerges from this collection is a picture of a complex society that was neither fully modern nor fully totalitarian ... The dense book provides an illuminating discussion of the difficulties inherent in characterizing the GDR and, in so doing, points the reader in directions that might prove more fruitful."  · German Studies Review"The contributions represent sound research, employing use of new archival sources, interviews and oral history, as well as rich secondary literature ... The volume merits high marks for its theoretical and empirical import."  · The Historian

Konrad H. Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Studien in Potsdam, Germany.

• PrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Beyond Uniformity: The Challenge of Historicizing the GDRKonrad H. JarauschPART I: THE THEORETICAL PROBLEM OF DICTATORSHIPChapter 1. The GDR: A Special Kind of Modern DictatorshipJürgen KockaChapter 2. Modernization and Modernization Blockages in GDR SocietyDetlef PollackChapter 3. Care and Coercion: The GDR as Welfare DictatorshipKonrad H. JarauschPART II: MECHANISMS OF POLITICAL REPRESSIONChapter 4. From Dismantling to Currency Reform: External Origins of the Dictatorship, 1943-1948Jochen LauferChapter 5. Foreign Influences on the Dictatorial Development of the GDR, 1949-1955Michael LemkeChapter 6. Repression and Tolerance as Methods of Rule in Communist SocietiesMario Keßler and Thomas KleinPART III: MEANS OF SOCIAL CONTROLChapter 7. Creating State Socialist Governance: The Case of the Deutsche VolkspolizeiThomas LindenbergerChapter 8. Food Supply in a Planned Economy: SED Nutrition Policy between Crisis Response and Popular NeedsBurghard Ciesla and Patrice G. PoutrusChapter 9. The Myth of Female Emancipation: Contradictions in Women's LivesLeonore Ansorg and Renate HürtgenChapter 10. The Socialist Glass Ceiling: Limits to Female CareersDagmar Langenhan and Sabine RoßPART IV: CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF DOMINATIONChapter 11. Dictatorship as Discourse: Cultural Perspectives on SED LegitimacyMartin SabrowChapter 12. The Fettered Media: Controlling Public DebateSimone Barck, Christoph Classen and Thomas HeimannChapter 13. Criticism and Censorship: Negotiating Cabaret Performance and Book ProductionSylvia Klötzer and Siegfried LokatisChapter 14. The Pivotal Cadres: Leadership Styles and Self-Images of GDR-ElitesArnd Bauerkämper and Jürgen DanyelPART V: TEMPORAL TRANSFORMATIONSChapter 15. Stagnation or Change? Transformations of the Workplace in the GDRPeter HübnerChapter 16. The Hitler Youth Generation in the GDR: Insecurities, Ambitions and DilemmasDorothee WierlingChapter 17. Reforming Socialism? The Changing of the Guard from Ulbricht to Honecker during the 1960sMonika KaiserChapter 18. Mobility and Blockage during the 1970sRalph JessenPART VI: POSTSCRIPTChapter 19. Rethinking the Second German DictatorshipChristoph KleßmannSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

"The essays presented display a realm of vibrant historical inquiry. Many of the chapters significantly expand our understanding of the complexity of GDR society."  · Central European History"This is certainly the best single volume on the social and cultural history of the GDR in English, and indeed ranks highly among works in German as well."  · German Politics"What emerges from this collection is a picture of a complex society that was neither fully modern nor fully totalitarian ... The dense book provides an illuminating discussion of the difficulties inherent in characterizing the GDR and, in so doing, points the reader in directions that might prove more fruitful."  · German Studies Review"The contributions represent sound research, employing use of new archival sources, interviews and oral history, as well as rich secondary literature ... The volume merits high marks for its theoretical and empirical import."  · The Historian

Konrad H. Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Studien in Potsdam, Germany.

• PrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Beyond Uniformity: The Challenge of Historicizing the GDRKonrad H. JarauschPART I: THE THEORETICAL PROBLEM OF DICTATORSHIPChapter 1. The GDR: A Special Kind of Modern DictatorshipJürgen KockaChapter 2. Modernization and Modernization Blockages in GDR SocietyDetlef PollackChapter 3. Care and Coercion: The GDR as Welfare DictatorshipKonrad H. JarauschPART II: MECHANISMS OF POLITICAL REPRESSIONChapter 4. From Dismantling to Currency Reform: External Origins of the Dictatorship, 1943-1948Jochen LauferChapter 5. Foreign Influences on the Dictatorial Development of the GDR, 1949-1955Michael LemkeChapter 6. Repression and Tolerance as Methods of Rule in Communist SocietiesMario Keßler and Thomas KleinPART III: MEANS OF SOCIAL CONTROLChapter 7. Creating State Socialist Governance: The Case of the Deutsche VolkspolizeiThomas LindenbergerChapter 8. Food Supply in a Planned Economy: SED Nutrition Policy between Crisis Response and Popular NeedsBurghard Ciesla and Patrice G. PoutrusChapter 9. The Myth of Female Emancipation: Contradictions in Women's LivesLeonore Ansorg and Renate HürtgenChapter 10. The Socialist Glass Ceiling: Limits to Female CareersDagmar Langenhan and Sabine RoßPART IV: CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF DOMINATIONChapter 11. Dictatorship as Discourse: Cultural Perspectives on SED LegitimacyMartin SabrowChapter 12. The Fettered Media: Controlling Public DebateSimone Barck, Christoph Classen and Thomas HeimannChapter 13. Criticism and Censorship: Negotiating Cabaret Performance and Book ProductionSylvia Klötzer and Siegfried LokatisChapter 14. The Pivotal Cadres: Leadership Styles and Self-Images of GDR-ElitesArnd Bauerkämper and Jürgen DanyelPART V: TEMPORAL TRANSFORMATIONSChapter 15. Stagnation or Change? Transformations of the Workplace in the GDRPeter HübnerChapter 16. The Hitler Youth Generation in the GDR: Insecurities, Ambitions and DilemmasDorothee WierlingChapter 17. Reforming Socialism? The Changing of the Guard from Ulbricht to Honecker during the 1960sMonika KaiserChapter 18. Mobility and Blockage during the 1970sRalph JessenPART VI: POSTSCRIPTChapter 19. Rethinking the Second German DictatorshipChristoph KleßmannSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

"The essays presented display a realm of vibrant historical inquiry. Many of the chapters significantly expand our understanding of the complexity of GDR society."  · Central European History"This is certainly the best single volume on the social and cultural history of the GDR in English, and indeed ranks highly among works in German as well."  · German Politics"What emerges from this collection is a picture of a complex society that was neither fully modern nor fully totalitarian ... The dense book provides an illuminating discussion of the difficulties inherent in characterizing the GDR and, in so doing, points the reader in directions that might prove more fruitful."  · German Studies Review"The contributions represent sound research, employing use of new archival sources, interviews and oral history, as well as rich secondary literature ... The volume merits high marks for its theoretical and empirical import."  · The Historian