Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War WorldQuinn Slobodian 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. |
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Part II Aid anders? | 41 |
East German Assistance to North Korea and Alternative Narratives of the Cold War | 43 |
Socialist Philanthropy and the Imagery of Solidarity in East Germany | 73 |
The East German Approach 197689 | 95 |
Part III Ambivalent Solidarities | 115 |
Chapter 7 Ambivalence and Desire in the East German Free Angela Davis Campaign | 157 |
Chapter 8 True to the Politics of Frelimo? Teaching Socialism at the Schule der Freundschaft 198190 | 188 |
Part IV Socialist Mirrors | 211 |
The Black Façade of the Universities of German Revisionism | 213 |
Socialist Cosmopolitanism in an Unfinished DEFAChina Documentary | 219 |
Joerg Forth and Tran Vus GDRVietnamese Coproduction Dschungelzeit 1988 | 243 |
Part V Internationalist Remains | 265 |
Chapter 11 Affective Solidarities and East German Reconstruction of Postwar Vietnam | 267 |
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