Berlin Journal, 1989-1990

By: Robert Darnton

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Paperback | 1 March 1992 | Edition Number 1

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Shock waves from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 continue to pulse through German society. As the difficult process of reunification continues, it is worth recalling the revolutionary moment when immense crowds took to the streets of Leipzig and Berlin under the banner “We Are the People” and brought down one of the world’s most oppressive dictatorships. Robert Darnton’s eyewitness account of those historic days “is direct and vivid. His prose conveys the immediacy of the drama.” He gives us a memorable cast of characters, from two experts on the repair of broken-down Trabis to the environmental councilor for the polluted city of Bitterfeld, and Isaak Behar, a Jew who managed to survive the Holocaust while hiding in wartime Berlin. With wit and insight Darnton takes us behind the scenes to meet “ordinary people grappling with great change, humanizing history.”

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Introduction	p. 9
Chronology	p. 21
Confrontations with the Past	p. 31
Confessions of a Germanophobe	p. 33
A Wandering Jew	p. 41
We Are the People"	p. 63
The Embassy in Prague	p. 65
The Meanings of the Wall	p. 74
A Third Way?	p. 87
Liberty in Leipzig	p. 95
History in Berlin	p. 106
The Last Dance on the Wall	p. 112
Storming the Stasi	p. 120
Faces in the Crowd	p. 127
The Stasi Files	p. 129
Comparative Pub Crawling	p. 138
The Trabi and Its Trainer	p. 148
The Dirtiest City in Europe	p. 157
Evenings with the Old Guard	p. 167
What is Literature?	p. 179
The Viewpoint of the Censor	p. 188
The Revolution in a Village	p. 204
We Are One People"	p. 219
Inventing Politics February 2, 1990	p. 221
Campaign Trails March 3, 1990	p. 234
Election Results	p. 247
The Recovery of Legitimacy	p. 256
Politics and Guilt	p. 263
Laucha Revisited	p. 275
Retrospectives	p. 281
Time and Money	p. 283
The Polish Market	p. 296
Border Crossings	p. 304
The Revolution in the Museum	p. 312
Index	p. 323
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