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THE IDEAL WORLD OF DICTATORSHIP - STEFAN WOLLE ...

Life in the German Democratic Republic was a permanent balancing act between conformity and
revolt. Political pressure and an economy of scarcity coexisted alongside the more pleasant and
seemingly idyllic aspects of everyday life. Stefan Wolle takes these contradictory images of a
now defunct world and weaves them into a coherent picture. He shows that the meticulously kept
death strip at the border and lovingly tended allotment gardens were two sides of the same coin
that dictatorship and daily life necessarily went hand in hand. Wolle tells the history of the
last two decades of the GDR from the inside out  as the collective biography of its
inhabitants. The result is a thoroughly researched and ambitious scholarly work that doesn't
shy away from radical subjectivity. He describes the attempts of East German citizens to create
a modicum of intellectual and spiritual freedom  takes stock of the shattered dream of a human
democratic socialism  and reclaims the multifaceted lives of those who lived under Communist
Party rule. Originally published in 1998  this seminal history of everyday life in East Germany
is now available for the first time in English.

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