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Defining Socialism Through The Familiar: East German Representation Of Hungary In The 1950s And 1960s, Kathryn Campbell Julian
Defining Socialism Through The Familiar: East German Representation Of Hungary In The 1950s And 1960s, Kathryn Campbell Julian
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This study analyzes East German representations of Hungary in cultural texts to investigate the emergence of a German socialist identity in the 1950s and 1960s. I further contend that post-1945 self- and collective identity in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was complex and formulated by official, intellectual, and mass perceptions. By examining East German iconography of Hungary it becomes clear that socialist identity in the early years of the dictatorship relied on traditional expressions of society as well as ideology. Hungary provided East Germans with a practical model for socialist friendship. Though the GDR was a state that ostensibly celebrated …