Tailoring truth : politicizing the past and negotiating memory in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Jon Berndt Olsen

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&...

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Hauptverfasser:Olsen, Jon Berndt (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht:New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2017
Ausgabe:First paperback edition
Schriftenreihe:Studies in contemporary European history volume 15
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