Material Fantasies : Expectations of the Western Consumer World among East Germans.

Material Fantasies : Expectations of the Western Consumer World among East Germans.

In 1989 news broadcasts all over the world were dominated for weeks by images of East Germans crossing the Berlin Wall to West Germany. But what did the East Germans expect to find when they excitedly broke through the Wall? And what did they actually find when they made it over to the other side? T...

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Main Author:	Veenis, Milena
Corporate Author:	Stichting Historie der Techniek (Content Provider.)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Series:	Amsterdam University Press - Technology and European History.
Subjects:	Post-communism > Germany (East) Consumption (Economics) > Germany (East) Quality of life > Germany (West) Quality of life > Germany (East) SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. Consumption (Economics) Post-communism Quality of life Germany (East) Germany (West)
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