ホーネッカーの子供たち：旧東独における若者と愛国主義1979-2002年 Honecker's Children : Youth and Patriotism in East(Ern) Germany, 1979-2002

Saunders, Anna

Manchester University Press（2007/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780719074110
• DDC分類 320.540830943

基本説明

Using a combination of archival research, interviews, educational materials and government reports, this book examines the relationship between young people and their two successive states in East(ern) Germany between 1979 and 2002.

Full Description

During the final decade of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), young citizens found themselves at the heart of a rigorous programme of socialist patriotic education, yet following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the emphasis of official state rhetoric, textbooks and youth activities changed beyond recognition. For the young generation growing up during this period, 'normality' was turned on its head, leaving a sense of insecurity and inner turmoil.
Using a combination of archival research and interviews, together with educational materials and government reports, this book examines the relationship between young people and their two successive states in East(ern) Germany between 1979 and 2002. This unusual time-span straddles the 1989/1990 caesura which often delimits historical studies, and thus enables not only a detailed examination of GDR socialisation, but crucially also its influence in unified Germany. Anna Saunders explores the extent to which a young generation's loyalties can be officially regulated in the face of cultural and historical traditions, changing material conditions and shifting social circumstances, and finds GDR socialisation to be influential to post-unification loyalties through its impact on the personal sphere, rather than through the official sphere of ideological propaganda.

At a time of globalisation, this lucid study not only provides unique insight into the functioning of the GDR state and its longer-term impact, but also advances our broader understanding of the ways in which collective loyalties are formed. It will be of particular interest to those in the fields of German History and Politics, European Studies and Sociology.

Contents

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