Olsen Tailoring Truth

Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-572-1
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 15, 276 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Reihe: Contemporary European History

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 regime's approach to memory politics was not stagnant, but rather evolved over time to meet different demands and potential threats to its legitimacy. Ultimately the party found it increasingly difficult to control the public portrayal of the past, and some dissidents were able to turn the party's memory politics against the state to challenge its claims of moral authority.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olsen, Jon Berndt

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

List of Illustrations and Maps

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

 

Chapter 1. Mobilizing Memory in the Soviet Occupation Zone

Chapter 2. The Politics of State Memory

Chapter 3. Emotional Bonds

Chapter 4. Broadening the Historical Roots of the State Narrative

Chapter 5. The Erosion of State Memory Culture in the GDR

Conclusion



Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Olsen, Jon Berndt
Jon Berndt Olsen is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Dean of Waldsee, the German language and culture immersion program of Concordia Language Villages. He has been the recipient of awards from the Fulbright Commission, the Robert Bosch Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council's Berlin Program.