Building the East German Myth: Historical Mythology and Youth Propaganda in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1989

Contributor(s): Nothnagle, Alan L (Author), Nothnagle, Alan Lloyd (Author)

ISBN: 9780472109463

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Hardcover

$80.00

Pub Date: September 22, 1999

Dewey: 305.23509431

LCCN: 98-58051

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.20" H x 9.00" L x 6.30" W ( 1.10 lbs) 224 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Shows how communist youth propaganda contributed to East Germany's success

Review Quotes: ". . . a highly illuminating exploration of failed myth-building, of the failure of intensive propaganda efforts to instill hollow myths in a population living under dictatorship."
--Catherine Epstein, Amherst College, American Historical Review, April 2001
--Catherine Epstein, Amherst College "American Historical Review" (5/3/2001 12:00:00 AM)