Dictatorship and demand : the politics of consumerism in East Germany / Mark Landsman.

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2005], ©2005.

xii, 296 pages ; 24 cm.

Production and consumption : establishing priorities -- The contest begins: the currency reform, the Berlin Blockade, and the introduction of the HO -- The planned and the unplanned: consumer supply and provisioning crisis -- The rise, decline and afterlife of the new course -- Demand research and the relations between trade and industry -- Crisis revisted: the main economic task and the building of the Berlin Wall.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-287) and index.

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