1st Edition
Berlin Before the Wall A Foreign Student's Diary with Sketches
By Hsi-Huey Liang
Copyright 1990
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the 1950’s, Berlin had come under four-power occupation while still struggling to recover from the war. It had also become the object of a fierce ideological conflict between Stalinist Communism and capitalist democracy, between traditional German values and hopes for a new and better Europe. From these years, when the inhabitants of Germany’s Old Reich capital re-evaluated their past and... Read more
Introduction 1. Arrival (Fall 1953) 2. Winter 1953-1954 3. Spring 1954 4. Summer/Fall 1954 Epilogue
Biography
Hsi-Huey Liang was Chairman of the Department of History and Professor of Modern European History at Vassar College, USA. A prolific author and a talented visual artist, Liang, who had lived on three continents, brought an extraordinarily cosmopolitan, compassionate, and witty sensibility to the craft of history.
