The currency of socialism money and political culture in East Germany
Making and unmaking money : monetary theory and economic planning in East Germany -- Accounting and accountability : financing the planned economy under Honecker, 1971-1980 -- Parsimony and the prince : crisis and stability, 1980-1985 -- The currency of decline : the dis--integration of the East Ger...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Washington, DC
German Historical Institut u.a.
2007
Cambridge u.a. Cambridge Univ. Press 2007 |
| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Publications of the German Historical Institute
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Geldpolitik
> Wechselkurspolitik
> Währung
> Geldgeschichte
> DDR
> Monetary policy
> History
> Money
> Germany (East)
> Economic conditions
> Germany
> Deutschland
> Geschichte
> Geld
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Making and unmaking money : monetary theory and economic planning in East Germany -- Accounting and accountability : financing the planned economy under Honecker, 1971-1980 -- Parsimony and the prince : crisis and stability, 1980-1985 -- The currency of decline : the dis--integration of the East German economy, 1986-1989 -- The vehicle of desire : the Trabant, the Wartburg, and the discipline of demand -- Consuming ideology : the Intershops, Genex, and retail trade under Honecker -- Appealing to authority : the citizens petitions and the rhetoric of decline -- Epilogue : revisiting reunification There is perhaps nothing so commonplace and yet so mystifying as money. But to European communists, money was clearly an instrument of economic exploitation and spiritual alienation. In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan R. Zatlin explores the East German attempt to create a perfect society by eliminating money and explains the reasons for its failure. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including unpublished communist reports, secret police files, literature, jokes, letters written by ordinary people, and conversations with key German politicians, this book shows how the communist regime undermined the political authority of socialism and created the material conditions for its demise. By exploring both the economic and the cultural function of money, Zatlin challenges traditional approaches to economic planning by offering a novel explanation for the collapse of communism in East Germany and a highly original interpretation of German unification. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XX, 377 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780521869560 978-0-521-86956-0 0521869560 0-521-86956-0 |