Material Fantasies : Expectations of the Western Consumer World among the East Germans

This study of East German fantasies of material abundance across the border, both before and after the fall of communism, shows the close and intricate relation between ideology and fantasy in upholding social life. In 1989, news broadcasts all over the world were dominated for weeks by images of Ea...

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Main Author: Veenis, Milena (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Amsterdam University Press 2012
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