MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aHX280.5.A6$bG574 2011
082 00 $a320.53/150943109048$222
100 1 $aGlaeser, Andreas.
245 10 $aPolitical epistemics :$bthe secret police, the opposition, and the end of East German socialism /$cAndreas Glaeser.
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$cc2011.
300 $axxxiii, 606 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aChicago studies in practices of meaning
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [567]-592) and index.
505 0 $aSocialism 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.
650 0 $aSocialism$zGermany (East)
610 10 $aGermany (East).$bMinisterium für Staatssicherheit.
651 0 $aGermany (East)$xPolitics and government.
650 0 $aSocialism$zEurope, Eastern.