{"product_id":"textbook-reds-schoolbooks-ideology-and-eastern-german-identity-paperback-1","title":"Textbook Reds: Schoolbooks, Ideology, and Eastern German Identity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Rodden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf one wants to know what children in communist East Europe were told to think about their nation and their leaders, their class enemy, and their so-called Soviet friends, no better source exists than textbooks. In textbooks the dogmas of communism were communicated in their most simplified form and manufactured in the millions for mass consumption. \u003ci\u003eIn Textbook Reds\u003c\/i\u003e, John Rodden shows how the now-defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR) shaped generations of East German youth and how the imprint of Marxist-Leninist ideology remains today on the hearts and minds of millions of eastern Germans, more than fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a rich and varied collection of materials--a total of more than two hundred textbooks, teaching guides, school songbooks, educators' professional journals, and school examinations--Rodden spotlights the \"textbook mentality\" that permeated East German society. In the GDR's campaign to win the minds of men, any critiques of the Party were equated with disloyalty and the bourgeois sins of individualism, negativism, and cosmopolitanism. Citizens who broke free of such indoctrination still bore marks of its influence, even long after leaving school--and long after the GDR's dissolution in 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second part of the book offers a glimpse of post-communism today. Through interviews with dozens of teachers and students from contemporary eastern Germany, we see that East German faculty and students constitute perhaps the largest, most articulate, most traumatized segment of the population affected by events since 1989. Not just a study in comparative education, \u003ci\u003eTextbook Reds \u003c\/i\u003eis also a work in the sociology of education, literary sociology, and literary history. Rodden shows that the deepest roots of GDR society were indeed located in the institution that molded the youth of its citizens, and that the most searching questions about East German identity and the repression of its political past are in fact to be found there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Rodden is Adjunct Professor in Speech Communication at the University of Texas. His books include \u003ci\u003eRepainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995 \u003c\/i\u003e(2002) and \u003ci\u003ePerforming the Literary Interview: How Writers Craft Their Public Selves\u003c\/i\u003e (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.07 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56117938389297,"sku":"9780271058566","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/5wx9zl458J9780271058566_409dad81-385d-4c7a-92b6-732a73ccda74.webp?v=1788567171","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/textbook-reds-schoolbooks-ideology-and-eastern-german-identity-paperback-1","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}