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Morgen: die Industriegesellschaft am Scheideweg-Kritik und reale Utopie
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ISBN: 3492026176 Year: 1980 Publisher: München Piper

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Towards a radical democracy
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ISBN: 1315823438 0415608791 1317831853 1317831861 9781317831853 9780415608794 9780415608800 0415608805 9781315823430 9781317831846 9781317831860 Year: 2011 Publisher: London

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Originally published in 1988, this is the first systematic account of the writings of Hungarian dissidents and former students of George Lukacs, collectively known as the 'Budapest School'. Dr. Brown demonstrates the importance of their work in contributing to a logically consistent yet realistic theory of socialist mixed economies, and genuine radical democracies. The Budapest Schoool's model of radical democracy represents a critique of both industrial capitalism and existing socialist systems, with immediate political as well as philosophical importance. Dr. Brown is particularly concerned to draw out its significance for the practical realities of political economy, and the logical implications for desirable reform of Western mixed economies.

Die DDR-Geschichtswissenschaft als Forschungsproblem
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ISBN: 3486644262 9783486644265 Year: 1998 Volume: 27 Publisher: München: Oldenbourg,

Towards a radical democracy : the political economy of the Budapest school
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ISBN: 0043304087 9780043304082 Year: 1988 Publisher: London: Hyman,


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Synthetic socialism
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ISBN: 1469606771 9781469606774 9780807832387 0807832383 9798890882660 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press

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Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. Synthetic Socialism explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple material: plastic. Rubin investigates the connections between the communist government, its Bauhaus-influenced designers, its retooled postwar chemical industry, and its general consumer population. He argues that East Germany was neither a totalitarian state nor a niche society but rather a s


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Envisioning socialism : television and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic
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ISBN: 9780472120024 0472900951 0472120026 0472119192 9780472900954 Year: 2014 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

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"Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans' view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. In the first book in English to examine this topic, Heather L. Gumbert traces how television became a medium prized for its communicative and entertainment value. She explores the difficulties GDR authorities had defining and executing a clear vision of the society they hoped to establish, and she explains how television helped to stabilize GDR society in a way that ultimately worked against the utopian vision the authorities thought they were cultivating. Gumbert challenges those who would dismiss East German television as a tool of repression that couldn't compete with the West or capture the imagination of East Germans. Instead, she shows how, by the early 1960s, television was a model of the kind of socialist realist art that could appeal to authorities and audiences. Ultimately, this socialist vision was overcome by the challenges that the international market in media products and technologies posed to nation-building in the postwar period. A history of ideas and perceptions examining both real and mediated historical conditions, Envisioning Socialism considers television as a technology, an institution, and a medium of social relations and cultural knowledge. The book will be welcomed in undergraduate and graduate courses in German and media history, the history of postwar Socialism, and the history of science and technologies"--

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