دانلود کتاب Memorializing the GDR: Monuments and Memory after 1989

Memory debates and the built environment since unification -- 'Working through' the GDR past -- A shifting memorial culture -- Memory, monuments and memorialization -- Notions of, and problems with, collective forms of memory -- Monuments, memorials and 'memory markers' -- Socialist icons: from heroes to villains? -- The role of monuments in the GDR -- Transition: October 1989 to October 1990 -- Eastern Berlin I: from unification to Lenin's fall -- Eastern Berlin II: from the commission's recommendations to -- Thalmann's survival -- Demolition debates beyond Berlin: Chemnitz's 'nischel' -- Modification: a modern makeover for Halle's flag monument -- Relocation: finding a new home for Leipzig's Karl Marx relief -- Conclusion: the ever-present narrative of 1989 -- Soviet special camps: reassessing a repressed past -- Special camps and interrogation centres -- Commemoration without monumentalization: representing silenced memories at Buchenwald -- Emotive symbolism and reconciliation at Funfeichen -- Breaking the silence: historical revision in Greifswald -- A monument without answers? Haftstatte Prenzlauer Allee, BerlinConclusion: Revoking silence -- 17 June 1953 uprisings: remembering a failed revolution -- Conflicting interpretations in Berlin: Katharina Karrenberg, Wolfgang Ruppel and beyond -- Remembering Hennigsdorf's steelworkers -- Tank tracks in Leipzig -- Tank tracks in Dresden -- Conclusion: diverse remembrance -- The Berlin Wall: historical document, tourist magnet or urban eyesore? -- The early post-Wende years: from commodification to preservation -- Ubergange: Remembering border crossings and transitions -- Bernauer Strasse wall memorial (Part I): peripheral remembrance? -- Victimhood and visibility I: Remembering child vicitms in Treptow -- Victimhood and visibility II: White crosses in duplicate -- Victimhood and visibility III: The Freedom Memorial, Checkpoint Charlie -- Towards decentralised remembrance: the gesamtkonzept and Bernauer Strasse (Part II) -- Conclusion: Shifting remembrance -- Remembering the 'peaceful revolution' and German unity -- Building national memory? Berlin's freedom and unity monument -- Remembering the Leipzig demonstrations: the Nikolaikirchhof and beyond -- Schwerin's controversial remembrance of the round table -- Swords into ploughshares: Dessau's peace bell -- Transforming the fortunes of Magdeburg? the development of a citizens' monument -- A truly democratic project? Plauen's Wende monument -- Conclusion: The concrete legacy of the peaceful revolution -- Conclusion: Beyond the palimpsest -- What remains? -- Dominant narratives -- Dialogic remembrance and entangled memories  Read more...