| Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World Contributor(s): Slobodian, Quinn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1785337378 ISBN-13: 9781785337376 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Germany - History | Modern - 20th Century - Political Science | International Relations - Diplomacy |
| Series: Protest, Culture & Society |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East German internationalism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Slobodian, Quinn: - Quinn Slobodian is Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College and the author of Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany. |