The icon curtain : the Cold War's quiet border / Yuliya Komska.

By: Komska, Yuliya [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015Description: vii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226154190 (cloth : alk. paper); 022615419X (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Sudeten Germans -- History -- 20th century | Bohemian Forest -- Description and travel | Travelers' writings, German -- History and criticism | Bohemian Forest Region -- Church history -- 20th century | Sudeten Germans -- Religion | Bohemian Forest -- In art | Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1945-1992 | Germany (West) -- Boundaries -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- 20th century | Czechoslovakia -- Boundaries -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century | Cold War | HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern | Sudetendeutsche | Staatsgrenze | Ost-West-Konflikt | Eiserner Vorhang | Deutschland | Tschechoslowakei | Sudettyskar -- historia | Tyska reseskildringar | Västtyskland | Kalla kriget | Tjeckoslovakien | 1900-taletDDC classification: 943/.34087 LOC classification: DD78.S77 | K66 2015Online resources: Book review (H-Net)
Contents:
Conditions: ruins of the Cold War -- Cornerstones: iconoclasm and the making of the prayer wall -- Infrastructure: civilian border travel and travelogues -- Uses: visual nostalgia at the prayer wall -- Epilogue: tragic frames.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conditions: ruins of the Cold War -- Cornerstones: iconoclasm and the making of the prayer wall -- Infrastructure: civilian border travel and travelogues -- Uses: visual nostalgia at the prayer wall -- Epilogue: tragic frames.

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