Antifascism and Memory in East Germany Remembering the International Brigades 1945-1989

Name: Antifascism and Memory in East Germany Remembering the International Brigades 1945-1989
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ISBN: 9780199276264

ISBN-10: 0199276269

ISBN-13: 9780199276264

Edition: 2004

Authors: Josie McLellan

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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 and outlasted 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 memory under state socialism. The ruling Socialist Unity Party made full use of the antifascist legacy as…

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List price: $240.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/16/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Josie McLellan is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Bristol. Her previous publications include Antifascism and Memory in East Germany: Remembering the International Brigades, 1945-1989 (2004).




The odyssey of the German volunteers



Strangers in a strange land : the Spanienkampfer in East Germany



The uses of history : the party appropriates Spain



Reluctant heroes : veterans and the state contest the meaning of the war



Heroes like us? : the second generation rediscovers the volunteers



Undiplomatic statements : censoring Spain



Stalinism and silence