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Comrades of Color
eBook - East Germany in the Cold War World, Protest, Culture & Society
ISBN/EAN: 9781782387060
Umbreit-Nr.: 2125324
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 336 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.12.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p> In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East German internationalism.</p>
- Kurztext
- In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East German internationalism.
- Autorenportrait
- <p><strong><strong>Quinn Slobodian</strong> </strong>is Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College and the author of <em>Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany</em>.<strong></strong></p>