Description: Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic
Brief description: Eli Rubin is currently visiting scholar at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung and fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin. He is assistant professor of history at Western Michigan University.
Review Quotes: "A welcome addition to a growing body of literature seeking to explore the changing meanings and ways in which the East German world was constructed." -- American Historical Review