Love in the Time of Communism

by Josie McLellan

Book Overview

In the aftermath of the reunification of Germany one former dissident recalled nostalgically that under the East German regime 'we had more sex and we had more to laugh about'. Love in the Time of Communism is a fascinating history of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution and its limits. Josie McLellan shows that under communism divorce rates soared, abortion become commonplace and the rate of births outside marriage was amongst the highest in Europe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521727618
• ISBN13: 9780521727617
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"