Format:
1 online resource (253 pages)
ISBN:
9781611480078
Content:
How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? 'Getting History Right' examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. It examines how societal level discussions of the past shaped individual perceptions and interpretations of the past; and how individual perceptions and struggles over the meaning of the past shaped societal level discussions. These struggles over meaning and 'getting history right' are not only shaped by political power, but are also a source of symbolic power.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Collective Memory, Politics, and Culture -- 2 Victims and Perpetrators: The View from the East -- 3 Victims and Perpetrators: The View from the West -- 4 Collaboration and Resistance: Blood and Redemption -- 5 Division and Unity: A Revolutionary People Unites Itself -- 6 Defeat and Liberation: Ending the War -- 7 Conclusion-Mourning, Loss, and the Difficulty of Remembering -- Appendix: Charts and Chart Notes -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781611485226
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781611485226
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=753244
