The East German intelligentsia and the chronotopes of a lost utopia.
In 1997, I conducted interviews with and observed former East German academics who belonged to the Leipzig branch of the Rosa Luxemburg Association. This segment of the East German intelligentsia shared counterfactual narratives about how reformers could have changed the trajectory of East German hi...
| Publicado en: | History & Anthropology Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 781 - 806 |
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