Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Beyond Uniformity: The Challenge of Historicizing the GDR
Konrad H. Jarausch
PART I: THE THEORETICAL PROBLEM OF DICTATORSHIP
Chapter 1. The GDR: A Special Kind of Modern Dictatorship
Jurgen Kocka
Chapter 2. Modernization and Modernization Blockages in GDR Society
Detlef Pollack
Chapter 3. Care and Coercion: The GDR as Welfare Dictatorship
Konrad H. Jarausch
PART II: MECHANISMS OF POLITICAL REPRESSION
Chapter 4. From Dismantling to Currency Reform: External Origins of the Dictatorship, 1943-1948
Jochen Laufer
Chapter 5. Foreign Influences on the Dictatorial Development of the GDR, 1949-1955
Michael Lemke
Chapter 6. Repression and Tolerance as Methods of Rule in Communist Societies
Mario Keßler and Thomas Klein
PART III: MEANS OF SOCIAL CONTROL
Chapter 7. Creating State Socialist Governance: The Case of the Deutsche Volkspolizei
Thomas Lindenberger
Chapter 8. Food Supply in a Planned Economy: SED Nutrition Policy between Crisis Response and Popular Needs
Burghard Ciesla and Patrice G. Poutrus
Chapter 9. The Myth of Female Emancipation: Contradictions in Women's Lives
Leonore Ansorg and Renate Hurtgen
Chapter 10. The Socialist Glass Ceiling: Limits to Female Careers
Dagmar Langenhan and Sabine Roß
PART IV: CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF DOMINATION
Chapter 11. Dictatorship as Discourse: Cultural Perspectives on SED Legitimacy
Martin Sabrow
Chapter 12. The Fettered Media: Controlling Public Debate
Simone Barck, Christoph Classen and Thomas Heimann
Chapter 13. Criticism and Censorship: Negotiating Cabaret Performance and Book Production
Sylvia Klotzer and Siegfried Lokatis
Chapter 14. The Pivotal Cadres: Leadership Styles and Self-Images of GDR-Elites
Arnd Bauerkamper and Jurgen Danyel
PART V: TEMPORAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Chapter 15. Stagnation or Change? Transformations of the Workplace in the GDR
Peter Hubner
Chapter 16. The Hitler Youth Generation in the GDR: Insecurities, Ambitions and Dilemmas
Dorothee Wierling
Chapter 17. Reforming Socialism? The Changing of the Guard from Ulbricht to Honecker during the 1960s
Monika Kaiser
Chapter 18. Mobility and Blockage during the 1970s
Ralph Jessen
PART VI: POSTSCRIPT
Chapter 19. Rethinking the Second German Dictatorship
Christoph Kleßmann
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index