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9780521743600

The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521743600

  • ISBN10:

    0521743605

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-10-06
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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 Drawing on a wide range of sources, including unpublished communist reports, secret police files, literature, jokes, letters written by ordinary people, and conversations with key German politicians, this book shows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.

Table of Contents

Production
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 disintegration of the East German economy
Consumption
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' petition and the rhetoric of decline
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