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BL
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711409
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b533598
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| Main Entry
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Glaeser, Andreas
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| Title & Author
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Political epistemics : : the secret police, the opposition, and the end of East German socialism /\ Andreas Glaeser
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago ;London :: The University of Chicago Press,, [2011]
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, ©2011
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| Series Statement
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning
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xxxiii, 606 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0226297934
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: 0226297942
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: 9780226297934
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: 9780226297941
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [567]-592) and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution in 1989 -- Publisher description
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Germany (East).
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Socialism-- Europe, Eastern
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Socialism-- Germany (East)
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Germany (East), Politics and government
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| Dewey Classification
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320.53/150943109048
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| LC Classification
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HX280.5.A6G574 2011
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