Inventing a Socialist Nation

Posted By admin on Mag 2, 2014

Jan Palmowski Inventing a Socialist Nation Heimat and the Politics of Everyday Life in the GDR, 1945–90   Twenty years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, historians still struggle to explain how an apparently stable state imploded with such vehemence. This book shows how ‘national’ identity was invented in the GDR and how citizens engaged with it. Jan Palmowski argues that it was hard for...