Political epistemics : the secret police, the opposition, and the end of East German socialism - Glaeser, Andreas (Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-592) and index.
Keywords: Germany (East). -- Ministerium für Staatssicherheit; Socialism -- Germany (East); Socialism -- Europe, Eastern; Germany (East) -- Politics and government