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Plattetopia: The Prefabrication of Utopia in East Berlin

Plattetopia: The Prefabrication of Utopia in East Berlin

With the fall of the Berlin Wall came the licence to take a wrecking ball to its nightmare of repression. But there began the unwritten violence of Die Wende, the peaceful revolution that hides the Oedipal violence of one order killing another.

‘Legal Tender’: The Narrative of Love in East German Popular Culture