Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995

Contents......Page 16
List of Abbreviations......Page 18
Prologue: Unlessons, Far and Near......Page 22
‘‘Who Has the Youth, Has the Future’’......Page 34
1 From Brown to Red: The Fall and Rise of an Educational System, 1945–51......Page 60
2 Marooned in the Workers’ Paradise: Cold War Catechetics, 1951–61......Page 94
3 After the Wall: Pride before the Fall, 1961–89......Page 142
4 After the Wall II: The Fall and Rise of an Educational System......Page 206
5 Leipzig, 1990: Karl Marx-Universität, RIP: Postmortems on the God that Failed......Page 249
6 Plauen, 1990/1992/1994: From Schoolmarm to Revolutionary: Annaliese Saupe, Old ‘‘New Teacher’’ and Local Heroine......Page 273
7 Leipzig, 1991: Of Laughter and Forgetting: A Faculty-Student Conflict of Generations......Page 294
8 Berlin, 1991: Dialectical Dilemmas in the Universities: West Side Story, East Side Story......Page 307
9 Leipzig, 1993: Of Sport, State, and Stasi: Socialism with an Un-Beautiful Face......Page 320
10 Weimar, 1991; Weimar/Röcken, 1994: Zarathustra as Educator? To the Nietzsche Archives......Page 331
11 Berlin, 1994: Bridge over Broken Glass? A Journey to Germany’s Sole Jewish High School......Page 358
12 Weimar, 1994: Difficulties with the Truth: Coping with the DDR’s Past in the New Eastern Classroom......Page 372
13 Berlin, 1994: No Difficulties with the Truth? The Last Testament of Philosopher-Dissident Wolfgang Harich......Page 389
Epilogue: Education for Tolerance, Education for National Identity: The Unusable German Past?......Page 410
Notes......Page 426
Glossary......Page 496
Bibliography......Page 500
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