ISBN: 9780199276264

AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany is a book about remembering and about forgetting, about war, and about the peace which eventually followed. In the unlikely setting of the German De… Mehr…

AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany is a book about remembering and about forgetting, about war, and about the peace which eventually followed. In the unlikely setting of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Spanish Civil War became the subject of a debate which both predated andoutlasted the Cold War, involving historians, veterans, politicains, censors, artists, writers, and Church activists. Examining these multiple memories and interpretations of Spain casts new and unexpected light on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, and the relationship between history and memoryunder state socialism. The ruling Socialist Unity Party made full use of the antifascist legacy as legitimation for a non-democratic state. But despite dogged attempts at control and censorship, the state was unable to silence competing voices. All over East Germany, International Brigade veterans preserved their versionof events - in letters to each other, in communications with the party, in discussions with friends and family around the kitchen table, and in memoirs written for the ''desk drawer''. For younger East Germans, the war retained an undeniably romantic aura. From their perspective, Spain was a far-awayland to which they were forbidden to travel, the stuff of camp-fire singalongs and fantasies of adventure. This book dissects the relationship between state-sponsored history, the lobbying of veterans, cultural interpretations of war, and the memory traces left behind by marginalised or politically oppositional groups and individuals. It is a cultural history of memory under state socialism, a socialhistory of veteran groups and their relationship with the state, and a political history of communist culture. Above all, it is the story of how post-war Europeans came to terms with the heavy burden of their pre-war past. | AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany by Josie McLellan Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > European History > Central European History > German History P10103, Josie McLellan<

ISBN: 9780199276264

AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany is a book about remembering and about forgetting, about war, and about the peace which eventually followed. In the unlikely setting of the German De… Mehr…

AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany is a book about remembering and about forgetting, about war, and about the peace which eventually followed. In the unlikely setting of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Spanish Civil War became the subject of a debate which both predated andoutlasted the Cold War, involving historians, veterans, politicains, censors, artists, writers, and Church activists. Examining these multiple memories and interpretations of Spain casts new and unexpected light on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, and the relationship between history and memoryunder state socialism.The ruling Socialist Unity Party made full use of the antifascist legacy as legitimation for a non-democratic state. But despite dogged attempts at control and censorship, the state was unable to silence competing voices. All over East Germany, International Brigade veterans preserved their versionof events - in letters to each other, in communications with the party, in discussions with friends and family around the kitchen table, and in memoirs written for the ''desk drawer''. For younger East Germans, the war retained an undeniably romantic aura. From their perspective, Spain was a far-awayland to which they were forbidden to travel, the stuff of camp-fire singalongs and fantasies of adventure.This book dissects the relationship between state-sponsored history, the lobbying of veterans, cultural interpretations of war, and the memory traces left behind by marginalised or politically oppositional groups and individuals. It is a cultural history of memory under state socialism, a socialhistory of veteran groups and their relationship with the state, and a political history of communist culture. Above all, it is the story of how post-war Europeans came to terms with the heavy burden of their pre-war past. Books > History > European History > Central European History > German History List_Books, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

2004, ISBN: 0199276269

[EAN: 9780199276264], Neubuch, [PU: Oxford University Press|Clarendon Press], HISTORY - GENERAL EUROPE GERMANY SPAIN & PORTUGAL DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK (DDR) INTERNATIONALE BRIGAD… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780199276264], Neubuch, [PU: Oxford University Press|Clarendon Press], HISTORY - GENERAL EUROPE GERMANY SPAIN & PORTUGAL DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK (DDR) INTERNATIONALE BRIGADEN, Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany sheds new light on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, the way in which societies remember, and the nature of state socialism. It combines cultural, social, and political history to examine the ways in which the legac., Books<

2004, ISBN: 9780199276264

OUP Oxford, Hardcover, Auflage: Illustrated, 244 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004-10-07T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780199276264, 0.41 kg, Germany, Europe, History, Subjects,… Mehr…

OUP Oxford, Hardcover, Auflage: Illustrated, 244 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004-10-07T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780199276264, 0.41 kg, Germany, Europe, History, Subjects, Books, Portugal & Spain, Social & Cultural, World History, Countries & Regions, Government & Politics, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Fascism & Nazism, Political Science & Ideology, Format: Illustrated, OUP Oxford, 2004<

2004, ISBN: 9780199276264

Hard cover, New., 240 p. Oxford Historical Monographs . 3 black and white illustrations. Intended for professional and scholarly audience., Oxford, [PU: Clarendon Press]