Introduction
Joes Segal and Uta A. Balbier

Socialist Architecture

Whose Schlossplatz? Architecture and the "Materialization" of German Identities in Berlin's Historic Center, 1945-2009
John V. Maciuika

Concrete Utopia: Everyday Life and Socialism in Berlin-Marzahn
Eli Rubin

Cultural Transfers and Everyday Life

"Even Under Socialism, We Don't Want to Do Without Love": East German Erotica
Josie McLellan

Boom Boxes and Backward Caps: Hip-Hop Culture in the GDR
Leonard Schmieding

Shifting Narratives of Things: The East/West German Garden Egg Chair
Jana Scholze

The Politics Of Memory And Display

Disturbing Things: The Interpretation of East German Artwork in Reunified Germany
Joes Segal

"GDR on the Pacific": (Re)presenting East Germany in Los Angeles
Justinian Jampol