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Everyday Subversion: From Joking to Revolting in the German Democratic Republic (Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series)
by Kerry Kathleen Riley
from Michigan State University Press

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• the people of East Germany subvert the Communist totalitarian system
  "This is a story of how average people, relying on their everyday symbolic resources, can counter repressive propaganda, harassment, unmitigated ideology, and existential deprivation." Riley's focus is East German society in the decades leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism throughout Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union itself.
  The "symbolic resources" whose effects the author describes range from civic disobedience of individuals, jokes told between persons or to... more info

• A superb body of original scholarship
  "Everyday Subversion: From Joking to Revolting In The German Democratic Republic" by independent scholar and researcher Kerry Kathleen Riley, traces the evolution of the grassroots social movement in the former German Demoractice Republic (GDR) and its democratically spirited, ultimately subversive forms of communication that were practiced in resistance to the communist regime that dominated the country and its institutions until the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the eventual reunification of Germany as... more info