Communism's Public Sphere Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany.

Communism's Public Sphere Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany.

Communism's Public Sphere explores the political role of cultural spaces in the Eastern Bloc. Under communist regimes that banned free speech, political discussions shifted to spaces of art: theaters, galleries, concert halls, and youth clubs. Kyrill Kunakhovich shows how these venues turned in...

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Main Author: Kunakhovich, Kyrill
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023
Subjects:
Communism and culture > Germany > Leipzig > History > 20th century.
Communism and culture > Poland > Kraków > History > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Communism's Public Sphere
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Takeover: Reconstruction as Revolution
  • 2. Planning: Workers and Cultural Mass Work
  • 3. Nationalism: Public Protest and the Birth of National Communism
  • 4. Pluralism: Individual Choice and Public-Opinion Polling
  • 5. Consumerism: Cultured Consumption and Its Limits
  • 6. Reform: The Promise and Peril of Controlled Revolt
  • 7. Dissent: Normalization and Its Discontents
  • 8. Protest: Spaces of Opposition, Spaces of Dialogue
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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