Memorializing the GDR : monuments and memory after 1989 / Anna Saunders.
Memorializing the GDR : monuments and memory after 1989 / Anna Saunders.
Memorializing the GDR : monuments and memory after 1989 / Anna Saunders.
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New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
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G 2018/3998
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English
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xiii, 368 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Memory debates and the built environment since unification -- 'Working through' the GDR past -- A shifting memorial culture -- Memory, monuments and memorialization -- Notions of, and problems with, collective forms of memory -- Monuments, memorials and 'memory markers' -- Socialist icons: from hero...
Conclusion: Revoking silence -- 17 June 1953 uprisings: remembering a failed revolution -- Conflicting interpretations in Berlin: Katharina Karrenberg, Wolfgang Ruppel and beyond -- Remembering Hennigsdorf's steelworkers -- Tank tracks in Leipzig -- Tank tracks in Dresden -- Conclusion: diverse reme...
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Publisher
New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
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 public memory, investigating the individuals and...
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Memorializing the GDR : monuments and memory after 1989 / Anna Saunders.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/3998
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74VKVANGeMEZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVANGeMEZ
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ISBN
1785336800 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781785336805 hardcover ; alkaline paper
DDC
943.1087
MMS ID
991024176107402626
