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Gerd Horten is Emeritus Professor of History at Concordia University, Portland, Oregon. His first book, Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II, was published by the University of California Press in 2002, and he has published articles in journals including German History and German Studies Review.

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Introduction: Disempowering a Dictatorship—Media and Consumer Culture in East Germany



Chapter 1. Successful Media Campaigns in East Germany in the 1960s and 1970s: The Vietnam War and the 1972 Olympics

Chapter 2. Fade Out: Hollywood Movie Imports and the Cultural Surrender of the GDR Film Control in the 1970s and 1980s

Chapter 3. The Westernization of East German Television in the 1970s and 1980s

Chapter 4. Fighting Against All Odds: GDR Popular Music and Youth Radio in an International Context

Chapter 5. Western Consumer Culture or Bust: Intershops and East German Consumption Policies in the 1970s and 1980s



Epilogue: Out With the Old—In With the New? Wende, Ostalgie and the Serpentine Unification



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