This book focuses on a key aspect of the German question--the
problem of German national identity and communist ideology in their
historical perspective since 1945 and their immediate clash in the
downfall of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1989. The
book's theme might be summarized as German identity recovered. The
book is unique in that it is in part an eyewitness account of one
of Europe's most startling transformations.
In the four decades of its existence, the GDR did not succeed in
fostering a separate political or social identity, and thus an
underlying difficulty of the state was never resolved. The
overriding objective of the political socialization process in the
GDR was to instill socialist political culture into the citizenry.
This political culture had not only to be uniform with ideological
imperatives and aspirations, but had to stand on its own because of
the absence of a broader-based national culture. Given the newness
of the state and its political institutions, and the continual
challenge on the national question presented by the mere existence
of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), the East German Communist
Party (SED) always faced an uphill task. This book should be of
interest to students and scholars interested in Germany, in Europe,
and in the fate of communism.
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