Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World

by Quinn Slobodian

Book Overview

In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785337378
• ISBN13: 9781785337376
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"