Prologue. Unlessons, Far and Near
Introduction. "Who has the Youth, has the Future"
Part One. "The Citadel of Learning": The Making and Unmaking of the
German Communist, 1945-1989
Chapter 1. From Brown to Red: The Fall and Rise of an Educational
System, 1945-1951
Chapter 2. Marooned in the Workers' Paradise: Cold War Catechetics,
1951-1961
Chapter 3. After the Wall: Pride before the Fall, 1961-1989
Part Two. (Post) Socialism with a German Face, 1989-1995
Chapter 4. After the Wall II: The Fall and Rise of an Educational
System
Chapter 5. Leipzig, 1990
Chapter 6. Plauen, 1990/1992/1994
Chapter 7. Leipzig, 1991
Chapter 8. Berlin, 1991
Chapter 9. Leipzig, 1993
Chapter 10. Weimar, 1991, Weimar/Rocken, 1994
Chapter 11. Berlin, 1994
Chapter 12. Weimar, 1994
Chapter 13. Berlin, 1994
Epilogue. Education for Tolerance, Education for National Identity:
The Unusable German Past?
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
"The most complete treatment of East German education that has
appeared in English, yet most of the book does not touch upon
schools or schooling. Rodden's work evokes the dilemas of everyday
totalitarianism with unusual poignancy, and it is to be warmly
recommended to all those wanting to probe the deeper currents of
social reality in the 'former East Germany.'"--Central European
History
"A wealth of interesting stories about the process of unification
as experienced by individual Germans and about Rodden's personal
grappling with the merits and disadvantages of socialism and
capitalism."--H-Net
"This vividly written, often idiosyncratic, even polemical
education history offers a colorful prism through which to view
East Germany in the cold war and subsequent German
reunification."--History: Reviews of New Books
"This book has a confident feel and brims with new information and
intelligent insight. This sophisticated portrait of the GDR will be
important in debates about East Germany, both in and outside
Germany."--John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley
"This is not a history of education in the usual sense. It evinces
a rich understanding of the history of Marxism and does a superb
job of weaving the various strands of shifting Marxist ideological
positions and European historical events into a chronological
narrative focused upon educational issues. This book is also
exceptionally readable, written in a rich, sometimes brilliant
prose style that honors the stories of the people whom Rodden
met."--Sterling
Fishman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse is the first complete
narrative, in any language, that traces the full history of the
GDR's attempt to create a new Marxist nation by means of
educational reform. This eminently absorbing study should appeal to
readers interested in education, cultural politics, the history of
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politics."--Walter Sokel, University of Virginia
"I have never read a book by a foreign author that displays such a
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book furnishes keen insight into the nature of communism and the
historical processes that ultimately resulted in the overthrow of
this system."--Wolfgang Strauss, University of Jena
"There is nothing at all like this work, in approach or quality, on
the topic of German education-despite the flood of books on Germany
past and present."--Christian Soe, California State University at
Long Beach
"A tremendous opus that traces eastern Germany's history for four
decades under an authoritarian regime through its transformation
process into a roughly democratic society. This work also
constitutes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the
functioning of dictatorship as well as to the general processes of
social change."--Karl-Heinz Fuessl, Humboldt University, Berlin
"John Rodden has written a marvelous book...[A]n unconventional and
occasionally idiosyncratic study on comparative education and on
the social psychology of re-education."--Comparative Education
Review
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