General Information

Author/Creator

Glaeser, Andreas.

Language

English.

Published

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2011.

Subjects

Subject

Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit.

Socialism > Germany (East)

Socialism > Europe, Eastern.

Germany (East) > Politics and government.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Andreas Glaeser.

Series

Chicago studies in practices of meaning

Content

Socialism as a self-fulfilling prophecy : the party's project. From Marx to conscious social transformation ; Aporias of producing right consciousness -- Contingencies and dynamics of understanding : the theory. Constituting understandings through validations ; Dialectics in spaces of validation -- Becoming socialist men : the Stasi officers. Guardians of the party state ; Stasi culture : authority, networks, and discourses -- Disenchantment, disengagement, opposition : the dissidents. When someone's Eden becomes another's purgatory ; Forming groups, organizing opposition -- Policing understandings : reproducing misunderstandings. Attempting to know and control the opposition.

ISBN

9780226297934

9780226297941

0226297934

0226297942

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	320.53/150943109048 GLA		Reference	-

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