Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism and the People's State in 1968

by Andrew Demshuk

Communist East Germany's demolition of Leipzig's perfectly intact medieval University Church in May 1968 was an act decried as "cultural barbarism" across the two Germanies and beyond. Although overshadowed by the crackdown on Prague Spring mere weeks later, the willful destruction of this historic landmark on a central site symbolically renamed Karl Marx Square represents an essential turning point in the relationship between the Communist authorities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190645121
• ISBN13: 9780190645120
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"