Studies in GDR Culture and Society Series – serie

Assistant editors are Christine Consentino, Volker Granslow, Nancy A. Lauckner, Duncan Smith, Alexander Stephan, and W. Christoph Schmauch.

Assistant editors are: Wolfgang B¸scher, Christine Cosentino, Volker Gransow, Nancy A. Lauckner, Duncan Smith, Alexander Stephan, W. Christoph Schmauch.

Assistant editors are: Wolfgang B_scher, Christine Cosentino, Volker Gransow, Nancy A. Lauckner, Duncan Smith, Alexander Stephan, W. Christoph Schmauch.

The fourteen papers collected in this volume cover topics such as the measurements of GDR economic performance, GDR society's perception of the United States, pseudo-Marxism in the GDR and Eastern Europe, work and science and technology progress in the GDR, social and cultural changes in lives of GDR women, and male and female identities in recent GDR literature. Co-published with the International Symposium on the German Democratic Republic.

The general theme of this volume is Alltag in the GDR, and a special section is devoted to Berlin in commemoration of the 750th anniversary of the city's founding. Other seminar topics include regional differences in the GDR and its international environment, methodology, and literature and aesthetics. Some thirty papers were given by sociologists, political scientists, Germanists, film critics and others in combined sections. Co-published by the Symposium on the German Democratic Republic.