Tailoring truth : politicizing the past and negotiating memory in East Germany, 1945-1990 /
"By looking at state-sponsored memory projects, such as memorials, commemorations, and historical museums, this book reveals that the East German communist regime obsessively monitored and attempted to control public representations of the past to legitimize its rule. It demonstrates that the r...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2015
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| Series: | Studies in contemporary European history ;
15. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Mobilizing memory in the Soviet occupation zone
- The politics of state memory
- Emotional bonds
- Broadening the historical roots of the state narrative
- The erosion of state memory culture in the GDR.
