A history of private life in the German Democratic Republic, showing how the private sphere assumed central importance in the GDR from the very outset, andrevealing the myriad ways in which privacy was expressed, staged and defendedby citizens living in a communist society. INDICE: Introduction: Privacy in an Enclosed State; Section I: Secret Societies, Public Institutions, Private Lives; 1: Tyranny of Intimacy: The Stasi and East German Society; 2: East of Eden: Christian Subculture in State Socialism; 3: Intimacy on Display: Getting Divorced in East Berlin; Section II: Domestic Ideals, Social Rights, Lived Experiences; 4: Building Socialism at Home: Remaking Interiors and Citizens; 5: Property, Noise, and Honor: NeighborhoodJustice in East Berlin; 6: Socialism's Social Contract: Citizen Complaints; 7: Picturing Privacy: Photography and Domesticity; Epilogue: The House of Spirits: 1989, Civil Rights, and the Reclamation of Private Life; Bibliography; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-920884-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés