Representing the Socialist Everyday

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This article looks at the ways in which everyday life in the GDR is represented in state-funded museums and memorials. The focus is on Gedenkstaette Hohenschoenhausen, the Traenenpalast exhibition and the Stasi Museum at Normannenstrasse. I conclude that while images of everyday life are beginning to be represented at these sites, they are circumscribed by a narrative of the GDR as a totalitarian dictatorship.

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