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

"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 r...

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Auteur principal:	Olsen, Jon Berndt (Auteur)
Format:	Livre
Langue:	English
Publié:	New York Oxford : Berghahn, [2015]
Titres liés à la collection:	Studies in contemporary European history volume 15
Accès à la collection:	Studies in contemporary European history
Sujets:	Memorialization Historiography Historical museums Collective memory Political culture Social control Deutschland Geschichtspolitik Vergangenheitsbewältigung Geschichte plus... Kollektives Gedächtnis Geschichte 1945-1990
Description matérielle:	xiv, 262 Seiten