Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979 The 'Normalisation of Rule'?

"Mary Fulbrook produces high-quality works, and Power and Society in the GDRis no exception. She has assembled a strong collection of essays that examine the concept of normalization in East Germany during the stable middle decades - Altogether, [this] is an excellent book, one that has two major strengths. The first strength is the writing; every piece is very well-written. The second strength is how well the authors utilized their sources. They conscientiously engaged existing secondary scholarship in the text of their contributions." * German Studies Review "The volume makes an interesting and valuable contribution to the historiography of East Germany in the English language...The research presented in the volume is new, original, well-documented, and methodologically sound. It enjoys coherence thanks to the authors' application of the 'normalization' concept." * Laurence McFalls, Universite de Montreal