Anna Saunders

Honecker's Children

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

• Broschiertes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780719082139
• ISBN-10: 0719082137
• Artikelnr.: 32085680

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. The parameters of
patriotism 2. Young people of the 1980s: a generation of loyal patriots? 3.
October 1989 - October 1990: The rise and fall of a GDR identity 4. Civic
loyalties in the wake of unification 5. Conclusion: Death of the GDR:
rebirth of an eastern identity? Tables Graphs Bibliography Index