304 Pages
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Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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After German unification, former officers of the GDR state security service united with GDR professors and cultural managers to establish the East German Committee of Associations (OKV). On the basis of encompassing oral history into this complex web of interest organizations and memory clubs, Bouma argues that these activists are driven by an epistemic nostalgia: a longing for the time when their... Read more
List of Figures, Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, Part I: Memory and Nostalgia, Part II: The Ostdeutsches Kuratorium von Verbänden, Part III: The Maintenance of Communal Continuity in Activism and Outreach, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Amieke Bouma is lecturer in History at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include post-socialist historiography and radical left politics in Europe.
