Cover	1
	Contents	6
	Acknowledgements	8
	Notes on Contributors	10
	Part I: Scope and Perspectives	14
	1 Introductory Notes	15
	2 Ordinary People, Self-Energising, and Room for Manoeuvering: Examples from 20th Century Europe	25
	Part II: Dictatorial and Colonial Regimes 1930–1960: Practices of Domination and Modes of Appropriation	47
	3 The Third Reich: Police State or Self-Policing Society?	48
	4 Self-Reassurance in Troubled Times: German Diaries During the Upheavals of 1933	66
	5 Collaboration, Complicity, and Evasion Under Italian Fascism	86
	6 Stalinism ‘From Below’?: Soviet State, Society, and the Great Terror	105
	7 The Politics of National Language and Wartime Mobilisation of Everyday Life in Late Colonial Korea, 1937–1945	123
	8 Industrial Warriors: Labour Heroes and Everyday Life in Wartime Colonial Korea, 1937–1945	137
	9 Consumption and Consumerism in the German Democratic Republic	158
	Part III: Postcolonial Settings 1950–1990: Dimensions of Subjectivity	174
	10 North Korea and the Education of Desire: Totalitarianism, Everyday Life, and the Making of Post-Colonial Subjectivity	175
	11 Comrade Min, Women’s Paid Labour, and the Centralising Party-State: Postwar Reconstruction in North Korea	194
	12 Between Autonomy and Productivity: The Everyday Lives of Korean Women Workers During the Park Chung-hee Era	212
	13 Conscription, Collaboration, and Self-Cutting in Rural Senegal During and After World War II	228
	14 The Convention People’s Party (CPP) in Ghana, Late 1950s to the 1970s: Mobilisation for Transformation	237
	Index	260