Anna Saunders

Honecker's Children (eBook, ePUB)

Youth and patriotism in East(ern) Germany, 1979-2002

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the shifting identities and state loyalties of young people in East(ern) Germany during a unique period straddling the last decade of the GDR and the first decade of united Germany. It provides insight into the functioning of the GDR state, the process of German unification and the formation of national and regional identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847796585
• Artikelnr.: 42370129

Autorenporträt

Anna Saunders is Lecturer in German at the University of Wales, Bangor

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables and graphs Acknowledgements List of abbreviations and terms
Introduction: Honecker's Germany: a world of the past? 1 Eastern identity
in the wake of the GDR 4 Frameworks: defining the GDR in the 1980s 9
Growing up under Honecker 14 Researching young behaviours 20 1. The
parameters of patriotism 31 Nation and state 32 Germany: problematic
patriotisms 36 The GDR's patriotic programme 41 Conclusion 57 2. Young
people of the 1980s: a generation of loyal patriots? 66 The foundations of
identity: historical consciousness 67 'Peace must be armed!': protecting
the fatherland 76 'Educating hatred': young people and the 'imperialist'
West 88 Proletarian internationalism: the politics of solidarity 101 Rooted
in the present? Pride in the achievements of the GDR 112 Conclusion 127 3.
October 1989 - October 1990: The rise and fall of a GDR identity 151 Reform
and renewal: education and youth work during the Wende 155 Hope of a
reformed socialism: 9 October - 9 November 1989 160 From socialism to
scepticism: 9 November 1989 - 18 March 1990 164 The GDR becomes history: 18
March - 3 October 1990 176 Conclusion 181 4. Civic loyalties in the wake of
unification 189 Societal change and education in the absence of the blue
shirt 191 The double burden of overcoming the past: historical
consciousness in united Germany 195 Military loyalties in the absence of
the enemy 214 International allegiances in a new world order 224 United yet
divided? Social, economic and political trends since the Wende 234
Conclusion 254 5. Conclusion: Death of the GDR: rebirth of an eastern
identity? 278 Tables 297 Graphs 299 Bibliography 297