1. Introduction : the people's paradox
I: Visions of the good society (and how they were not realised in practice)
2. The East German social revolutions : violence, utopia and consumer socialism
4. Citizens at play : leisure
5. Matters of life and death
II: Class in a classless society: power, work and social inequality
8. The withering away of the state? Ruling elites
9. Cultural capital : from bourgeoisie to socialist intelligentsia
10. The un-making of the German working class (and peasantry)
III: the participatory dictatorship
11. The honeycomb state : the benign and malign diffusion of power
12. In place of a public sphere? 'Discussion', cultures and subcultures
13. The people's own voices? The culture of complaint and the privatisation of protest
