000 02216nab a2200253uu 4500
001 28362
005 20220802160843.0
008 140805 eng d
041 0 _aeng
100 1 _ader Goltz, Anna von
_915333
245 1 0 _aMaking sense of East Germany’s 1968: Multiple trajectories and contrasting memories
336 _aTexto
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _asin mediación
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _aVolumen
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a[Abstract This article investigates contrasting memories of East Germany’s 1968 based on a sample of six life story interviews. Given the iconic events of West Germany’s 1968, there has been a growing interest in the events happened on the other side of the Iron Curtain. In unified Germany, however, commemorations of 1968 in the German Democratic Republic have focused on a particular type of 68er biography: those who broke with the regime as a result of the Warsaw Pact’s invasion of Czechoslovakia on 21 August 1968 and chose to pursue various forms of opposition in its wake. This article lends more nuance to the subject by examining three individuals who chose this path alongside three others who followed a different trajectory. The crushing of the Prague Spring and their own imprisonment for protesting against it led the latter to shun open opposition in favour of pursuing change from within official structures. By highlighting the plurality of East German experiences and memories of this period, this article seeks to make a contribution both to the study of the international 1968 and to the thriving scholarship on how the East German past is remembered in united Germany. 1968 biography East Germany opposition oral history Prague Spring]
650 4 _aHISTORIA ORAL
_9321
650 4 _a1968
_91024
650 4 _aPRIMAVERA DE PRAGA
_915334
651 4 _aALEMANIA DEL ESTE
_913369
773 0 _g58 (vol.2, nro.1)
_w27494
_dCalifornia : Sage Publications, 2008-.
_gVol. 6, no. 1 (2013), p. 53-69
_tMemory studies. 2013; Vol.6, nro.1
_x1750-6980
942 _cARTICULOS
999 _c16951
_d16951
003 arbaides
773 0 _010311
_921239
_a
_b
_dCalifornia : Sage Publications, 2008-.
_o21936
_tMemory studies
_w(arbaides)27494
_x1750-6980
_z