Placing coffee at the center of its analysis, this volume links East Germany's consumption and food culture to its relationship to the wider world. Andrew Kloiber reveals the ways that everyday cultural practices surrounding coffee drinking not only connected East Germans to a global system of...

L. Leisering: Introduction -- M. G. Schmidt: Social Policy in the German Democratic Republic: Introduction.- "Socialist Social Policy" -- The Institutions of Social Policy in the GDR -- The Politics of Social Policy Under the Socialist Regime -- The Welfare State as Political Process: From...