Textbook Reds: Schoolbooks, Ideology, and Eastern German Identity

by John Rodden

Book Overview

If 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. In Textbook Reds, John Rodden shows how the now-defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271058560
• ISBN13: 9780271058566
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"