Preface.............................................................xi Chapter One. Losing Faith...........................................3 Believers and Victims............................................3 Real Existing Socialism.........................................22 Privilege, Secrecy, and Complicity..............................32 A Tethered Consciousness........................................52 Chapter Two. The Economic Collapse.................................59 The Debt Crisis and the Contradictions of Comecon...............59 The Costs of Computerization....................................73 Retreat from Reform: State Socialism in Retrospect..............78 The Archaeology of Coal and Steel...............................97 Chapter Three. The Autumn Upheaval................................108 Prologue: A Revolution in Germany..............................108 Decomposition and Flight.......................................120 Two Languages of Revolution....................................131 Monday Nights in Leipzig.......................................135 Berlin: Rulers and R ... read full excerpt from Dissolution: The Crisis ebook