ISBN-13: 9780472118717 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 368 str.
First published in France in 2001 by Editions Belin under the title Le communisme au quotidien, Sandrine Kott s book examines how East German businesses and government carried out communist practices on a daily basis and how citizens and workers experienced the conditions created by the totalitarian state in their daily lives. Kott undertakes a social analysis of the Communist Party s grasp on state enterprises and the limits of its power. She then analyzes the enterprises themselves and the social, generational, and gender tensions that had a profound impact on the lived experience of socialism. Finally, she considers the development and acceptance of a complex set of rituals and gift exchanges that masked latent conflicts while providing meaning to socialism s role in ordinary life."