Envisioning Socialism : Television and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic
Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans'view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. In the first book in English to examine this topic, Heather L. Gumbert traces how television became a medium prized for its co...
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University of Michigan Press
2014
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