This book discusses the reunification of Germany and the negative impacts that this had on East
German intellectuals. The book is an ethnographic account of how the intellectuals of East
Germany reacted to the demise of their nation their dream of a socialist world and
unification with capitalist West Germany. Part I covers unification 1990-91 Part II presents
a quarter century later follow-up with one-fourth of those interviewed in 1990-91 and Part III
examines the case from three social science perspectives.
