Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic
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Eli Rubin., & Eli Rubin|AUTHOR. (2012). Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic . The University of North Carolina Press.

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