Demolition on Karl Marx Square
Subtitle: Cultural Barbarism and the People's State in 1968
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780190645120
Subjects: Protest movements; College buildings; Wrecking; Architecture and state; Political culture; Communism, germany; Germany, politics and government, 20th century
Description: "The 1968 demolition of Leipzig's medieval University Church represents an essential turning point in relations between Communist authorities and the people they claimed to serve. The largest East German protest between the 1953 Uprising and 1989 Revolution, this intimate story clarifies how the dictatorial system operated and lost public belief"--Provided by publisher.