: the secret police, the opposition, and the end of East German socialism
\ Andreas Glaeser
;London
: The University of Chicago Press
, 2011
xxx, 590 p.
:ill.
;24 cm.
Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Index
Bibliography
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.