Paul Merker, the GDR, and the Politics of Memory: ‘Purging Cosmopolitanism’?
Author:   Alexander D. Brown
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2024 ed.
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Pages:   230
Publication Date:   15 July 2024
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Paul Merker, the GDR, and the Politics of Memory: ‘Purging Cosmopolitanism’?


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Author:   Alexander D. Brown
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031620676


ISBN 10:   3031620674
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   15 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. Introduction: The Martydon of Paul Merker.- 2. What's in a Purge?: A Tale of Two Show Trials.- 3. 'The German Slánský ' in State-mandated Memory.- 4. 'Purging Cosmopolitanism'? Merker and the 'Anti-cosmopolitan Campaign'.- 5. Paul Merker and the 'Jewish Question(s).- 6. Antisemitism and Antifascism: The Faultlines of National Legitimation.

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Alexander Brown is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Liverpool in the UK. Previously, he gained his PhD from the University of Birmingham, before working as a Research Associate at Newcastle University. Alexander’s research focuses on the history and memory of socialism in the GDR, with a special interest in the actions of state actors, the politics of memory, and ideology in post-1990 Germany.

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