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THE POLITICS OF TIME AND STATE IDENTITY IN THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

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Marcus Colla
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Abstract

The communist regimes of Eastern Europe carried a particular set of assumptions about the way past, present and future related to one another. In the case of the German Democratic Republic (the GDR), these assumptions manifested themselves in official language and propaganda as a defence of the regime's dynamic and forward-looking historicity against the ‘ahistorical’ and ‘nostalgic’ modes of understanding that supposedly typified the historical consciousness of its West German adversary. By this view, the German Federal Republic – and the capitalist West more generally – lacked both a meaningful past and a meaningful future. This article investigates how the East German regime articulated its historicity as a direct expression of its state identity. In particular, it examines how it sought to rationalise newly emerging historical and cultural practices in the GDR within the framework of a modern and progressive socialist historicity, and how it deployed these as an argument against the ‘nostalgic’ practices of the Federal Republic.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 29 , December 2019 , pp. 223 - 251
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Footnotes

Alexander Prize Winner

This article has gone through many versions and has been presented at several conferences and workshops along the way. I would like to thank everybody who has made suggestions and comments on the piece, and in particular the following: John Arnold, Tobias Becker, Giulia Bellato, Nora Berend, Matthew Champion, Chris Clark, Allegra Fryxell, Caroline Goodson, Oliver Haardt, Olivier Higgins, Charlotte Johann, Rhys Jones, Eirik Røsvik, Anika Seemann, Mark Smith, Daniel Spinks, Auriane Terki-Mignot, Emiliano Travieso and Roseanna Webster. In addition, I would like to thank Andrew Spicer and the anonymous reviewers from this journal.

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