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Tailoring Truth: Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990
Jon Berndt Olsen
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Description for Tailoring Truth: Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990
Paperback. 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. Series: Contemporary European History. Num Pages: 276 pages, 23 illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Contemporary European History
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785335020
SKU
V9781785335020
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About Jon Berndt Olsen
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.
Reviews for Tailoring Truth: Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990
...Tailoring Truth provides fascinating insight into the policies and strategies of the fledgling socialist state, and convincingly argues that despite the SED's attempts to monopolise the representation of memory and history, its efforts were, increasingly, limited... Olsen's style is both accessible and engaging, making this not only a useful text for students and scholars of the GDR, but also an ... Read more