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03916aam a2200493 i 4500 001 40915B04E67F11EE94C7D61345ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240320010038 008 221222t20232023nyua bq 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781640141544 020 $a 1640141545 035 $a (OCoLC)1355818877 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d YDX $d IND $d OCLCO $d UIU $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCL $d LML $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a e-gx--- $a e-gx--- 050 4 $a PT3707 $b .B76 2023 082 04 $a 830.9/9431 $2 23 100 1 $a Brockmann, Stephen, $e author. 245 14 $a The freest country in the world : $b East Germany's final year in culture and memory / $c Stephen Brockmann. 246 30 $a East Germany's final year in culture and memory 264 1 $a Rochester, New York : $b Camden House, $c 2023. 300 $a xii, 339 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture ; $v [236] 520 8 $a Shows that while the GDR is generally seen as - and mostly was - an oppressive and unfree country, from late 1989 until autumn 1990 it was the "freest country in the world": the dictatorship had disappeared while the welfare system remained. Stephen Brockmann's new book explores the year 1989/1990 in East Germany, arguing that while the GDR is generally seen as - and was for most of its forty years - an oppressive and unfree country, from autumn 1989 until the autumn of 1990 it was the "freest country in the world," since the dictatorship had disappeared while the welfare system remained. That such freedom existed in the last months of the GDR and was a result of the actions of East Germans themselves has been obscured, Brockman shows, by the now-standard description of the collapse of the GDR and the reunification of Germany as a triumph of Western democracy and capitalism. Brockmann first addresses the culture of 1989/1990 by looking at various media from that final year, particularly film documentaries. He emphasizes punk culture and the growth of neo-Nazism and the Antifa movement - factors often ignored in accounts of the period. He then analyzes three later semiautobiographical novels about the period. He devotes chapters to dramatic films dealing with German reunification made relatively soon after the event and to more recent film and television depictions of the period, respectively. The final chapter looks at monuments and memorials of the 1989/1990 period, and a conclusion considers the implications of the book's findings for the present day. 500 $a Series numbering from publisher's website (https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781640141544/the-freest-country-in-the-world/) 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-323), filmography (pages 325-326), and index. 648 7 $a 1990 $2 fast 650 0 $a Literature and society $z Germany (East) 650 0 $a German literature $z Germany (East) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Collective memory $z Germany. 650 7 $a Collective memory $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01739814 650 7 $a German literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00941797 650 7 $a Literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Literature and society $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 651 0 $a Germany (East) $x In popular culture. 651 0 $a Germany (East) $x In literature. 651 0 $a Germany $x In literature. $y Unification, 1990 $x In literature. 651 7 $a Germany $2 fast $1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtCD3rcKcPDx6FHmjvrbd $0 (OCoLC)fst01210272 651 7 $a Germany (East) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210274 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture ; $v v. 236. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240320011823.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=40915B04E67F11EE94C7D61345ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search