Foreword : what was the plan? And what was it meant to do? / Don Kalb -- I. Primitive socialist accumulation in Cluj -- 1. Productive state apparatuses : taking over the factories, 1944-1948 -- 2. 'More precious than gold' : labour instability and the 'stickiness' of everyday life -- 3....

The rise of the coca unions -- The lowest rung of the cocaine trade -- Self-governing in the Chapare -- From class to ethnicity -- Community coca control -- The unions and local government -- The coca union's radio station

What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist...