Composing Canon German Democ Republic C

by Elaine Kelly

When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead, they represented East German socialism as the culmination of all that was positive in Germany's past. The GDR was heralded as the second German Enlightenment, a society in which the rational ideals of progress, Bildung, and revolution that had first come to fruition with Goethe and Beethoven would finally achieve their apotheosis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199998094
• ISBN13: 9780199998098
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"