(Ebook) Paradigms of Political Change Luther Frederick II and Bismarck 1st Edition by Jan Herman Brinks, Gordon W Smith, Georg G Iggers ISBN 9780874629798 0874629799

(Ebook) Paradigms of Political Change Luther Frederick II and Bismarck 1st Edition by Jan Herman Brinks, Gordon W Smith, Georg G Iggers ISBN 9780874629798 0874629799

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ISBN 10: 0874629799
ISBN 13: 9780874629798
Author: Jan Herman Brinks, Gordon W Smith, Georg G Iggers

This history of East German historiography traces the way historical studies in the German Democratic Republic interpreted and reinterpreted German nation building through the figures of Martin Luther, Frederick II, and Otto Bismarck. The author pays particular attention to the tension between portraying a German national identity while at the same time proclaiming a distinct GDR identity. He identifies three distinct periods of GDR historiography. Immediately after the war, Germany was seen as tragically not developed democratic institutions. This was soon followed by a theory of German history that identified a dialectic between progressive forces and reactionary figures represented by the three subjects of the study. The final period rehabilitated all three to certain extent, suggesting they were necessary parts of the "early bourgeois revolution." The author relates all three of these phases to the changing ideological needs of the East German state. Translated from the original German work DDR zwischen Einheit und Abgrenzung. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

(Ebook) Paradigms of Political Change Luther Frederick II and Bismarck 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Foundations and Basic Questions of GDR Historiography
2. Marxist Interpretations of the Reformation and the Peasants’ War
3. The Reformation and Thomas Müntzer in GDR Historiography
4. The Role of National Traditions in the GDR’s Historical Consciousness
5. Frederick II and Prussian History in GDR Ideology
6. Bismarck and the Dilemma of the German Question
7. Prussia, Frederick II, and Bismarck: Their Portrayal Between 1971 and 1987

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