Tyranny of intimacy : the Stasi and East German society -- East of Eden : Christian subculture in state socialism -- Intimacy on display : getting divorced in East Berlin -- Building socialism at home : remaking interiors and citizens -- Property, noise, and honour : neighborhood justice in East Berlin -- Socialism's social contract : individual citizen petitions -- Picturing privacy : photography and domesticity -- Epilogue : the house of spirits : 1989, civil rights and the reclamation of private life
Summary
A history of private life in the German Democratic Republic, showing how the private sphere assumed central importance in the GDR from the very outset, and revealing the myriad ways in which privacy was expressed, staged and defended by citizens living in a communist society
