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Author McLellan, Josie.

Title Antifascism and memory in East Germany : remembering the International Brigades, 1945-1989 / Josie McLellan
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford historical monographs
Oxford historical monographs.
Contents List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Odyssey of the German Volunteers; 2. Strangers in a Strange Land: The Spanienkämpfer in East Germany; 3. The Uses of History: The Party Appropriates Spain; 4. Reluctant Heroes: Veterans and the State Contest the Meaning of the War; 5. Heroes Like Us? The Second Generation Rediscovers the Volunteers; 6. Undiplomatic Statements: Censoring Spain; 7. Stalinism and Silence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany sheds new light on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, the way in which societies remember, and the nature of state socialism. It combines cultural, social, and political history to examine the ways in which the legacy of the International Brigades was commemorated in the German Democratic Republic. - ;AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany is a book about remembering and about forgetting, about war, and about the peace which eventually followed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Anti-fascist movements -- Germany (East) -- History
Memory -- Social aspects -- Germany (East)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
Anti-fascist movements
Memory -- Social aspects
Military participation -- Foreign
Public opinion, German
SUBJECT Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Foreign public opinion, German
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, Foreign. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126125
Subject Germany (East)
Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005295723
ISBN 9780191515330
0191515337
9780199276264
0199276269
9786610844029
661084402X
1280844027
9781280844027