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Paul Merker, the GDR, and the politics of memory = 'purging cosmopolitanism'? /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Paul Merker, the GDR, and the politics of memory/ by Alexander D. Brown.
其他題名:	'purging cosmopolitanism'? /
作者:	Brown, Alexander D.
出版者:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2024.,
面頁冊數:	xi, 230 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Cultural History. -
標題:	Germany - Foreign economic relations. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62068-3
ISBN:	9783031620683

Paul Merker, the GDR, and the politics of memory = 'purging cosmopolitanism'? /
Brown, Alexander D.

Paul Merker, the GDR, and the politics of memory'purging cosmopolitanism'? /[electronic resource] :by Alexander D. Brown. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - xi, 230 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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.

This book presents ground-breaking research into the 'Merker affair,' a series of events that took place in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the early 1950s, which saw Paul Merker, a member of the ruling party's 'Politburo,' become ensnared in the agent hysteria of the period. He was ultimately deposed, arrested, and convicted on charges of espionage. However, the cultural significance of this affair goes far beyond the history of the early Cold War; it has become the definitive symbol of alleged antisemitism in the GDR. The narrative complex of an antisemitic GDR has in turn become a prominent topos within the politics of memory in Germany. The author combines an empirical study of the pertinent primary sources with a genealogical analysis of discourse on the Merker affair in order to question and historicise many of the entrenched historiographical tropes surrounding it, and indeed broader subjects such as antifascism and antisemitism in a German context. In doing so, the book offers insight into how German state-mandated institutions and official bodies have shaped our collective vision of the past. 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.

ISBN: 9783031620683

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-62068-3doiSubjects--Personal Names:

1455410
Merker, Paul,
1894-1969.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1106960
Cultural History.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

775239
Germany
--Foreign economic relations.

LC Class. No.: DD259.4

Dewey Class. No.: 943.0875

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