Saturday, January 10, 2004

2:30–4:30 a.m.

105. Defeating the Capitalist West! Questions of East German Political Economy, 1952–89
Marriott, Wardman Towers, Nathan Hale Room

Joint session with the Conference Group for Central European History

Chair: Jeffrey S. Kopstein, University of Colorado at Boulder
Papers:

Overcoming the West: The Volkseigenerbetrieb and Socialist Militancy in East Germany, 1952–63
James C. Van Hook, Joint Historian, United States Department of State/CIA

Dressing "Socialist Personalities" in (East) German Fashion
Judd Stitziel, Independent Scholar

Hostile Exchanges: Ethnic Conflict and the East German Planned Economy, 1971–89
Jonathan R. Zatlin, Boston University
Comment: Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University