Comrades of Color ：East Germany in the Cold War World ( Protest, Culture & Society )

Publication subTitle ：East Germany in the Cold War World

Publication series ：Protest, Culture & Society

Author： Slobodian Quinn

Publisher： Berghahn Books‎

Publication year： 2015

E-ISBN: 9781782387060

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781782387053

Subject： K1 World History;K5 European History

Keyword：外交、国际关系,世界史,欧洲史

Language： ENG

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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.