[M]akes a valuable contribution to the ongoing scholarly interrogation of memory of the GDR in reunified Germany. Even within what is now a richly populated field of study, The GDR Remembered deserves a wide readership, and will be useful in particular for undergraduate courses on account of the uniformly solid individual contributions, which function equally well as stand-alone pieces. . ... Read more. . [A] worthwhile addition to a field of research whose vitality is as clear two decades after German unification as it has ever been.
H-NET REVIEWS
[U]seful. . . . [M]ethodologically plural. . . . In the first section . . ., the approach is broadly thematic, . . . [and] offer[s] sensitive and enlightening readings of literary and filmic texts. . . The second part . . . discusses memorials and museums dedicated to various aspects of GDR state and society . . . [and] will be invaluable for readers . . . , especially [for those without] access to the German sources. The final part of the book is the most diverse, but is held together by its presentation of various methodological approaches to memory of the GDR as a whole. . . . [while the] penultimate chapter [of] Peter Thompson's analysis of the retrospective construction of the GDR as an 'imagined community' [proves to be] . . . the most intriguing and provocative contribution.
GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
[S]timulating . . . .
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
In each [of its three sections] the volume offers stimulating and often unusual approaches . . . . Overall [the essays] are characterized by a commendable clarity and by a freshness and originality of approach that places them among the best contributions to thinking about the legacy of the GDR twenty years after its demise. . . . [E]xcellent.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES
[A]ddresses some of the most important and engaging questions of the GDR legacy in contemporary Germany. . . . [M]akes a valuable contribution to such discussions, not least in the scope of its material and in the interdisciplinary diversity of the contributors. . . . The book's accessible style will appeal to academics and students, and also, it is to be hoped, to a wider audience.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES
Emphasizes the need for pluralistic and differentiated ways of approaching the past of the GDR.
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