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The peaceful revolution and its aftermath: collective memory and the victims of communism in East Germany
Die friedliche Revolution und ihre Folgen: die Opfer der SED-Diktatur in der kollektiven Erinnerung der Ostdeutschen
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Abstract "More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germans share equal civil rights. However, among East Germans, certain aspects of the communist system are still remembered positively. Shortcomings and injustices of communist hegemony are thereby blocked out. In contrast, vic... mehr
"More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germans share equal civil rights. However, among East Germans, certain aspects of the communist system are still remembered positively. Shortcomings and injustices of communist hegemony are thereby blocked out. In contrast, victims of communist repression cannot forget the suffering inflicted upon them. The contribution focuses on both the rehabilitation and compensation of victims and the acceptance of this process. In 2007 the Jena Center of Empirical Social and Cultural Research (JEZE) collected a survey of more than 300 interviews with applicants on rehabilitation and additionally conducted oral history interviews with affected people in Thuringia. The results of the analysis of these data show that younger and older generations of victims are especially disadvantaged in their social and health situation in comparison to the Thuringian population that was not victimized in the past. Despite of these drawbacks, victims try to integrate and to participate in public life. Yet, how does the public perceive the victims of the communist past today? In order to find out more about the acceptance of the process of rehabilitation and compensation within Thuringia's population results of the applicants' study will be confronted with an analysis of a telephone survey of 'ordinary' Thuringian citizens." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; SED; kollektives Gedächtnis; Rechtsstaat; Diktatur; Rehabilitierung; neue Bundesländer; Erinnerung; Thüringen; Wiedervereinigung; DDR-Forschung; politische Kultur; soziale Folgen; Opfer; Repression; postkommunistische Gesellschaft; DDR; Kompensation; Gerechtigkeit; gesundheitliche Folgen; Straftat
Klassifikation
Soziologie von Gesamtgesellschaften
allgemeine Geschichte
Methode
empirisch-qualitativ; empirisch; historisch; empirisch-quantitativ
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2010
Seitenangabe
S. 163-171
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 35 (2010) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.35.2010.3.163-171
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)