German Post-Socialist Memory Culture. Epistemic Nostalgia

Name: German Post-Socialist Memory Culture. Epistemic Nostalgia
Brand: Routledge
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By Amieke Bouma

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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 political understanding of the world was seemingly unchallenged. Far from constituting a 'second life of the Stasi', the main goal of OKV associations has been to validate the personal biographies of their activists, against the now prevalent view that the GDR was a 'state of injustice'. While the OKV quickly adapted to the new legal procedures in post-socialist Germany, their staunch defence of the GDR heritage complicates their relation to SED successor party Die Linke and other radical left parties and associations, even when they share practical goals.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 306
Release Date:: 2019-07-30
Publication Date:: 2019-07-30
Publisher:: Routledge
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 9463726616
ISBN13:: 9789463726610
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 625 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 21 cm

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