Cold War Berlin: Confrontations, Cultures, and Identities

by Scott H. Krause (Editor), Stefanie Eisenhuth (Editor), Konrad H. Jarausch (Editor)

Overview

A wide range of transatlantic contributors addresses Berlin as a global focal point of the Cold War, and also assess the geopolitical peculiarity of the city and how citizens dealt with it in everyday life. They explore not just the implications of division, but also the continuing entanglements and mutual perceptions which resulted from Berlin's unique status. An essential contribution to the study of Berlin in the 20th century, and the effects - global and local - of the Cold War on a city.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780755639236
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/22/2022
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Konrad H. Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Stefanie Eisenhuth is a research associate at Berlin's Humboldt University, Germany.

Scott H. Krause is a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Table of Contents

Introducing Cold War Berlin
From Heart of Darkness to Heap of Rubble: Berlin as Nazi Capital
Division of the Spoils: Berlin as Symbol and as Prize
Policing the Border Area in East Berlin: Rules, Conflicts and Negotiations, 1961-1989
Kennedy, Khrushchev, King, and Springsteen: Staging Visits in a Divided City
From Old War to Cold War: Berlin as Urban Planning Laboratory in the First Postwar Years
Entangled Entertainment: Cinema and Television in Cold War Berlin
The Politics of Subculture in both Berlins
Living in the Wall's Shadow: Berlin's Turkish Community, 1961–1989
Experimental Art and Cultural Exchange in Late Cold War Berlin
Behind the Wall, across the Wall: Gay Activism in East-Berlin
Exhibiting Berlin: Local History in its Museums
Performing Berlin: The Rivaling 750th Anniversaries of 1987
Divided Memory in United Berlin
Border Fragments, Border Fantasies: Cold War Berlin in Retrospect
Index