Memorializing the GDR monuments and memory after 1989

Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of...

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Main Author:	Saunders, Anna
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Berghahn Books 2018 Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	20th Century berlin wall civic collective forms of memory Collective memory commemorative projects conflicting memories diplomacy east germany eastern germany Europe gdr german culture german democratic republic german history german society Germany historical contexts HISTORY HISTORY / Europe / Germany HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General identity karl marx memorial culture Memorialization Memorials memory Modern modern german history occupied germany peaceful revolution public memory regional constructions retrospective revolutionaries social change Social History social issues socialist monuments memory peaceful revolution east germany german society civic socialist monuments commemorative projects 20th century social issues berlin wall identity historical contexts german democratic republic collective forms of memory europe karl marx art public memory occupied germany social history modern german history retrospective history conflicting memories regional constructions memorial culture german history eastern germany diplomacy gdr german culture social change revolutionaries
ISBN:	1785336819, 1785336800, 9781785336812, 9781785336805
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