Remembering the German Democratic Republic

Chapter 1 Remembering the German Democratic Republic in a United Germany

Chapter 2 The Politics of Remembering the GDR: Official and State-Mandated Memory since 1990

Chapter 3 Representations of the Everyday and the Making of Memory: GDR History and Museums

Chapter 4 Reinterpreting the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park after 1990

Chapter 5 Transforming Berlin’s Memory: Non-State Actors and GDR Memorial Politics

Chapter 6 Reinventing a Socialist Heroine: Commemorating Rosa Luxemburg after Unification

Chapter 7 Histories and Memories: Verklärung or Erklärung?

Chapter 8 Generation and Transition: East German Memory Cultures

Chapter 9 Did Communists Have Better Sex? Sex and the Body in German Unification

Chapter 10 From the ‘Niche Society’ to a Retreat from Society: East German Allotments as the Continuation of a Tradition?

Chapter 11 ‘The Era Has Passed, But it’s Nice to Remember’: Eastern Identifications with the GDR Past and Unified Germany

Chapter 12 Remembering the Uprising of 17 June 1953

Chapter 13 Red Radiation: East German Army Officers in Post-Unification Germany

Chapter 14 Autobiography as Participation in the ‘Master Narrative’: GDR Academics after Unification

Chapter 15 ‘The Past Does Not Repeat itself, But it Rhymes’: Autobiographies by Elites from the Confederate States of America and the German Democratic Republic

Chapter 16 At Home with the Stasi: Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen as Historic House

Chapter 17 Memories and Fantasies About and By the Stasi

Chapter 18 Between Denigration, Idealization and Historicization: Memories of Nazism and Everyday Antifascism

Chapter 19 How Memory is Remembered: The Potsdam Memory Archive (1995–6)