
State, society and memories of the uprising of 17 June 1953 in the GDR / Richard Millington (Lecturer, University of Chester, UK)
"On 17 June 1953 almost one million East Germans took to the streets to demand the removal of the ruling communist regime and better living conditions, before Soviet steel and lead put an end to the unrest. Condemned as an attempted 'fascist putsch' in the East, the communist regime a...
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Hauptverfasser: | Millington, Richard (VerfasserIn) |
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Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Veröffentlicht: | Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 |
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Introduction |
Day X: fascists, spies and thugs |
Tales of that day |
Watching the West |
Remembering and discussing the Uprising of 17 June 1953 |
17 June 1953 : a symbolic talisman of opposition in the GDR? |
Remembering 17 June 1953 in 1989 |
Conclusion. |