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Lehmann

Jugendpolitik in der DDR

Anspruch und Auswirkungen
Nomos,  2019, 879 Pages

ISBN 978-3-8487-4831-0


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The work is part of the series Extremismus und Demokratie (Volume 35)
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englischAs studies to date have shown, the aims and key aspects of the GDR’s youth policy and its practical consequenc-es have not yielded satisfactory results. Steffi Lehmann’s study is the first to contextualise the SED’s ideological demands as well as the real consequences of its youth policy and treatment of – supposedly – oppositional young people between 1945 and 1989/90. In her study, which outlines four time periods, she examines the aims of the GDR’s official youth policy, its socialist doctrine of education and the function of the FDJ on the one hand, and the real conditions in the country, i.e. attitudes towards the FDJ, general conduct in the private sphere and recreational activities, and the pressure to conform and nonconformism on the other. Her conclusion is that most adolescents internalised the speech and behaviour prescribed by the SED and adopted them in public, e.g. at school or at work, but not in their private lives and leisure time.


»Das Buch sei allen empfohlen, die sich für DDR-Geschichte und die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Ost und West interessieren, die sich in historisch-politischer Bildung mit Jugend und Jugendpolitik in der DDR und den aus der Jugendpolitik erwachsenen Folgen beschäftigen und die verstehen wollen, warum sich manches im Osten so entwickelt hat, wie es heute zu beobachten ist.«
Dr. Friedrun Erben, Außerschulische Bildung 4/2019, 62