This review appears in the Winter–Fall 2012 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.   Dialectics, Dogmas, and Dissent: Stories from East German Victims of Human Rights Abuse by John Rodden (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2010) Of all the now defunct communist states, the so-called German Democratic Republic—more often … Continue reading An Intimate Look at Totalitarian Repression