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Cold War Cities; History, Culture and Memory

Cold War Cities; History, Culture and Memory

Paperback

Series: Cultural Memories, Book 4

Ancient GreeceFrench HistoryGerman History

ISBN10: 3034317662
ISBN13: 9783034317665
Publisher: Peter Lang UK
Published: Sep 30 2016
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage crystallized and intersected with political and social dynamics predating and bypassing the Blocs. This collection taps into the rich fabric of memories, histories and cultural interactions of thirteen cities worldwide and the lived experience of urban communities during the long Cold War: activated and mobilized by atomic technologies, taking tourist photographs, attending commercial fairs, enjoying the cinema and the ballet, singing in choirs, paying respect in local cemeteries, visiting museums, and responding to town councils, unions and the local press. Literature, film, photography, the press, the monument, the cemetery, the factory, the ruin, the archive and the natural ecosystem are some of the key frameworks of cultural production elucidated here with a view to countering and exploding received myths about the Cold War.

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