1. The GDR: A Special Kind of Modern Dictatorship

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface ix
4. List of Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction
6. Beyond Uniformity: The Challenge of Historicizing the GDR 1
7. The Theoretical Problem of Dictatorship
8. 1. The GDR: A Special Kind of Modern Dictatorship 17
9. 2. Modernization and Modernization Blockages in GDR Society 27
10. 3. Care and Coercion: The GDR as Welfare Dictatorship 47
11. Mechanisms of Political Repression
12. 4. From Dismantling to Currency Reform: External Origins of the Dictatorship, 1943–1948 73
13. 5. Foreign Influences on the Dictatorial Development of the GDR, 1949–1955 91
14. 6. Repression and Tolerance as Methods of Rule in Communist Societies 109
15. Means of Social Control
16. 7. Creating State Socialist Governance: The Case of the Deutsche Volkspolizei 125
17. 8. Food Supply in a Planned Economy: SED Nutrition Policy between Crisis Response and Popular Needs 143
18. 9. The Myth of Female Emancipation: Contradictions in Women’s Lives 163
19. 10. The Socialist Glass Ceiling: Limits to Female Careers 177
20. Cultural Dimensions of Domination
21. 11. Dictatorship as Discourse: Cultural Perspectives on SED Legitimacy 195
22. 12. The Fettered Media: Controlling Public Debate 213
23. 13. Criticism and Censorship: Negotiating Cabaret Performance and Book Production 241
24. 14. The Pivotal Cadres: Leadership Styles and Self-Images of GDR-Elites 265
25. Temporal Transformations
26. 15. Stagnation or Change? Transformations of the Workplace in the GDR 285
27. 16. The Hitler Youth Generation in the GDR: Insecurities, Ambitions and Dilemmas 307
28. 17. Reforming Socialism? The Changing of the Guard from Ulbricht to Honecker during the 1960s 325
29. 18. Mobility and Blockage during the 1970s 341
30. Postscript
31. 19. Rethinking the Second German Dictatorship 363
32. Selected Bibliography 373
33. Notes on Contributors 379
34. Index 383