Socialist Subjectivities

Scott Harrison is Faculty in Liberal Studies at Boston Architectural College. Jeff Hayton is Associate Professor of Modern European History at Wichita State University. Katharine White is Campus Outreach Program Officer at The Mandel Center in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction – Scott Harrison, Jeff Hayton, and Katharine White, “Beyond the Black Hole: 1989 and the Narration of East German History”Section 1 – Blurred Lines: Locating Subjectivities between Ideology, Practice, and Everyday LifeChapter 1 – Mary Fulbrook, “The GDR as a ‘Post-Nazi society’: Preliminary Reflections” Chapter 2 – Markus Wahl, “Treating East German Subjects: Doctors and Patients with Alcohol Addiction in Late Socialism”Chapter 3 – Katharine White, “Producing Culture, Producing Socialism: An Apparatchik and a Singer-Songwriter in the Haus der jungen Talente”Chapter 4 – Tom Smith, “Desire, Sex, and Surveillance: Queer Methods and the Stasi’s Files on the East German Military” Section 2 – Interpreting Socialist Realities: Knowledge, Navigation, and Subject FormationChapter 5 – Catrina de Rivera, “A ‘Third Way’ of Living: Christa Wolf’s Cassandra (1983)” Chapter 6 – Kyrill Kunakhovich, “‘What German Thought Cannot Express’: Gert Neumann Reads Adam Michnik”Chapter 7– Scott Harrison, “‘Expulsion from Paradise’: East German Lesbian Subjectivities in the 1980s”Chapter 8 – Larissa R. Stiglich, “Showing up for Socialism: Eingaben in Eisenhüttenstadt during Late-Stage Socialism”Chapter 9 – Mor Geller, “Research, Subjects: Reception Polling and ‘Multiple Socialisms’ in Honecker’s East Germany” Section 3 – Fashioning Socialist Selves: Activism, Subversion, and Public EngagementChapter 10 – Briana J. Smith, “Art, Participation, and Play in 1980s East Berlin”Chapter 11 – Jeff Hayton, “Making Punks: Subculture and Engagement in Late Socialist East Germany”Chapter 12 – Julia E. Ault, “Envisioning a Better Future: Church-Based Environmentalism in the GDR”Chapter 13 – Timothy Scott Brown, “Dissonances: Rudolf Bahro Between Red and Green” Epilogue – Eli Rubin, “Doing Straight Time in the GDR”BibliographyContributorsIndex

“This book is warmly recommended to anyone interested in East Germany or the writing of history in general, to new scholars and to those established in the field.”