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Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Getting access; Studying "fallen elites"; The purpose of this book; Remembering the GDR; Three types of memory; Political epistemics; The Stasi stigma; Overview of the book; Part I. Memory and Nostalgia; 1. The Emotional Factor; Memory, Nostalgia and Politics; Communicative memory; Collective recalling and forgetting; Compartmentalized disremembering; Nostalgia and trauma; Nostalgia as a coping strategy; Claiming "trauma"; Nostalgia and politics; 2. OKV Biographies; Shared Memories and Arguments |
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The socialist autobiographyI OKV activists' stories; Stasi officer; Cultural functionary; Former spy; Socialist academician; Stasi drop-out; Hereditary communist; OKV sympathizer; II Analysis of the (auto)biographies; A coherent age cohort; Conversion narratives and social mobility; The personal is political: On the arguments in OKV autobiographies; Antifascism; Social mobility; Conclusion; Part II. The Ostdeutsches Kuratorium von Verbänden; 3. The Ostdeutsches Kuratorium von Verbänden; Origins, Structures, Strategies; The origin of the OKV; OKV membership; Internal organization; Activities |
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The OKV's organizational core: GBMThe pension issue; Thematic and organizational development of the GBM; Support for GDR functionaries against "Siegerjustiz": GRH; Conclusion; 4. A Complimentary and Overlapping Web; The OKV as a Social and Political Milieu; Antifascism and peace advocacy; Art and science; Historical memory; Associations of GDR traditions; Conditional outreach: Local initiatives on social justice; Conclusion: The afterlife of the GDR?; Part III. The Maintenance of Communal Continuity in Activism and Outreach; 5. Legal Activism; ISOR as the OKV's Major Lobby Organization |
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The issue of Stasi pensionsISOR's resistance to the pension laws; Limited success; Running out of options; ISOR as Sozialverein; Shifting to political strategies?; GDR continuity?; GDR legal practices: Petitioning the authorities instead of suing the state; Mediation; Contacting politicians; Conclusion; 6. Left Without Its Party; OKV Attempts at Linkage; After the divorce: The OKV and SED/PDS/Die Linke; Patron or traitor? Hans Modrow as a political mediator; Flirting with the DKP; Connections beyond the party spectrum; Conclusion; Part IV. Conclusion; Conclusion; The Organization of Nostalgia |
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Epistemic nostalgiaNostalgia narratives; Strategies of continuity; Organization; Self-isolation; (Re)framing; The political environment; Bibliography; Index; List of Figures and Tables; Figure 3.1 The network of OKV member organizations; Table 3.1 Organizational diagram of OKV-affiliated organizations; Figure 6.1 The OKV's possible partners and their placement a |
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9789048544677 (electronic bk.) |
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904854467X (electronic bk.) |
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