Tailoring Truth

Informationen zum Autor Jon Berndt Olsen is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Dean of Waldsee, the German language and culture immersion program of Concordia Language Villages. He has been the recipient of awards from the Fulbright Commission, the Robert Bosch Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council's Berlin Program. Klappentext 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 regime's approach to memory politics was not stagnant, but rather evolved over time to meet different demands and potential threats to its legitimacy. Ultimately the party found it increasingly difficult to control the public portrayal of the past, and some dissidents were able to turn the party's memory politics against the state to challenge its claims of moral authority. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables List of Illustrations and Maps Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Mobilizing Memory in the Soviet Occupation Zone Chapter 2. The Politics of State Memory Chapter 3. Emotional Bonds Chapter 4. Broadening the Historical Roots of the State Narrative Chapter 5. The Erosion of State Memory Culture in the GDR Conclusion Bibliography Index

Autorentext
Jon Berndt Olsen is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Dean of Waldsee, the German language and culture immersion program of Concordia Language Villages. He has been the recipient of awards from the Fulbright Commission, the Robert Bosch Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council's Berlin Program.

Klappentext
"This book is a fresh approach to the field of memory and commemoration studies....Its rich source-base gives a multi-perspective, nuanced approach to how the GDR attempted to create and then nurture a collective consciousness through foundational myths rooted in the physical and emotional landscapes of its citizens....[Olsen] has written a book that cleverly and seamlessly stitches social and cultural history with political history." · Benita Carol Blessing, University of Vienna "[This book] addresses a significant historical issue, particularly for an understanding not only of German history but of contemporary Germany itself....[it] goes beyond much literature on memory work in totalitarian countries, which often portrays the State as a unitary actor and state-imposed memory efforts as rather rigid and static." · Daniel Hamilton, Johns Hopkins University 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 regime's approach to memory politics was not stagnant, but rather evolved over time to meet different demands and potential threats to its legitimacy. Ultimately the party found it increasingly difficult to control the public portrayal of the past, and some dissidents were able to turn the party's memory politics against the state to challenge its claims of moral authority. Jon Berndt Olsen is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Dean of Waldsee, the German language and culture immersion program of Concordia Language Villages. He has been the recipient of awards from the Fulbright Commission, the Robert Bosch Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council's Berlin Program.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
List of Tables
List of Illustrations and Maps
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Mobilizing Memory in the Soviet Occupation Zone
Chapter 2. The Politics of State Memory
Chapter 3. Emotional Bonds
Chapter 4. Broadening the Historical Roots of the State Narrative
Chapter 5. The Erosion of State Memory Culture in the GDR Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

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