Title Bowling for communism : urban ingenuity at the end of East Germany / Andrew Demshuk.

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Ithaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2020]

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Description	1 online resource : illustrations
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : Can Leipzig still be saved? -- Survival and Despair in Dystopia -- Urban Ingenuity in the System -- Utopian Visions in 1988 -- Urban Ingenuity Underground -- The City as Stage in Revolution -- Epilogue : Continuities in "The Saved City."
Summary	"This book shows how civic life functioned in East Germany's second-largest city on the eve of the 1989 Revolution by uncovering illegal and semi-legal acts of 'urban ingenuity' amid catastrophic urban decay"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject	Urban renewal -- Germany -- Leipzig -- Citizen participation.
	Urban renewal.
	Germany -- Leipzig.
	Political participation.
	Urban renewal -- Political aspects -- Germany -- Leipzig.
	Urban renewal -- Political aspects.
	Urban renewal -- Germany -- Leipzig -- History -- 20th century.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Communism and architecture -- Germany -- Leipzig.
	Communism and architecture.
	Architecture and state -- Germany (East)
	Architecture and state.
	Germany (East)
	City planning -- Political aspects -- Germany -- Leipzig -- History -- 20th century.
	City planning -- Political aspects.
	City planning.
	Leipzig (Germany) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
	Leipzig (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
	Germany (East) -- Politics and government -- 1989-1990.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	1989-1990
Subject	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
	Buildings.
	Urban renewal -- Citizen participation.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Demshuk, Andrew, 1980- Bowling for communism Ithaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. 9781501751660 (DLC) 2020004274
ISBN	9781501751677 electronic publication
	1501751670 electronic publication
	9781501751684 electronic book
	1501751689 electronic book
	9781501751660 hardcover

Title Bowling for communism : urban ingenuity at the end of East Germany / Andrew Demshuk.

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