East Germany: The contested story
Book chapter
Andrews, M. 2007. East Germany: The contested story. in: Shaping history : narratives of political change Cambridge University Press. pp. 114-147
Authors | Andrews, M. |
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Abstract | The fact that in the one and only democratic election in the existence of the German Democratic Republic, citizens voted to dissolve their country is the stuff of classic tragedy. The revolution eats its children, we are told, and so it happened in East Germany in 1989. Sebastian Pflugbeil, a leading East German opposition activist, voiced the fallen hopes of many which followed in the wake of his country’s revolution: “We have helped give birth to a child that quickly turned into a rather ugly creature” (Philipsen 1993: 161). East Germany has been the subject of countless publications since its demise more than fifteen years ago; yet still there is no consensus on the meaning of the changes which occurred there in its ‘spring in winter’ (Reich 1990). |
Book title | Shaping history : narratives of political change |
Page range | 114-147 |
Year | 2007 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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2007 | |
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Deposited | 17 Mar 2015 |
Accepted author manuscript | License CC BY-NC-ND |
https://repository.uel.ac.uk/item/86676
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