Political epistemics: the secret police, the opposition, and the end of East German socialism

Socialism as a self-fulfilling prophecy : the party's project. From Marx to conscious social transformation ; Aporias of producing right consciousness

Contingencies and dynamics of understanding : the theory. Constituting understandings through validations ; Dialectics in spaces of validation

Becoming socialist men : the Stasi officers. Guardians of the party state ; Stasi culture : authority, networks, and discourses

Disenchantment, disengagement, opposition : the dissidents. When someone's Eden becomes another's purgatory ; Forming groups, organizing opposition

Policing understandings : reproducing misunderstandings. Attempting to know and control the opposition.