Dictatorship and Demand : The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Production and Consumption: Establishing Priorities -- 2. The Contest Begins: The Currency Reform, the Berlin Blockade, and the Introduction of the HO -- 3. The Planned and the Unplanned: Consumer Supply and Provisioning Crisis -- 4. The Rise, Decline, and Afterlife of the New Course -- 5. Demand Research and the Relations Between Trade and Industry -- 6. Crisis Revisited: The Main Economic Task and the Building of the Berlin Wall -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.