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Places and strata of memory
Approaches to eastern Europe

Karl Schlögel

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Abstract

The idea of 1989 as an annus mirabilis in which everything changed is too crude, writes Karl Schlögel. Rather, it was the result of a long incubation period that took a very different course in each Eastern Bloc country. In a benchmark essay for the twentieth anniversary celebrations, Schlögel stresses the entanglements and ambiguities of postwar history and asks whether it is too soon to start talking of a "common European history".

(Web Special, pp. 1–11)

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Atminties vietos ir sluoksniai

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