: the secret police, the opposition, and the end of East German socialism
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\ Andreas Glaeser
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;London
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: The University of Chicago Press
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, 2011
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xxx, 590 p.
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:ill.
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;24 cm.
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning
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Socialism as a self-fulfilling prophecy : the party's project. From Marx to conscious social transformation ; Aporias of producing right consciousness -- Contingencies and dynamics of understanding : the theory. Constituting understandings through validations ; Dialectics in spaces of validation -- Becoming socialist men : the Stasi officers. Guardians of the party state ; Stasi culture : authority, networks, and discourses -- Disenchantment, disengagement, opposition : the dissidents. When someone's Eden becomes another's purgatory ; Forming groups, organizing opposition -- Policing understandings : reproducing misunderstandings. Attempting to know and control the opposition.