John Rodden has taught at the University of Virginia and at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945–1995 (2002) and Textbook Reds: Schoolbooks, Ideology, and Eastern German Identity (Penn State, 2005).

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsPrologueIntroductionPart 1 Orwellian Dialectics, or the Stasi’s Psychoterror1.Of Pigs and Poison Shelves2.“Big Brother Was Watching Me” Part 2 Rosy Dogmas, or Barbarism with a Human Face3.Innocents Abroad4.Dictatorship of the Professoriat?Part 3 Courageous Dissent, or the Grit and Grace of Public Heroics5.Revolutionary in Love with the Past6.The Galileo of the GDREpilogue AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“John Rodden is turning into the Studs Terkel of the GDR, a patient interlocutor who gets people talking and asks the probing question when it is needed. As time goes on, and both lives and memories fade, this kind of oral history record becomes increasingly valuable.”—Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College

John Rodden has taught at the University of Virginia and at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945–1995 (2002) and Textbook Reds: Schoolbooks, Ideology, and Eastern German Identity (Penn State, 2005).

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsPrologueIntroductionPart 1 Orwellian Dialectics, or the Stasi’s Psychoterror1.Of Pigs and Poison Shelves2.“Big Brother Was Watching Me” Part 2 Rosy Dogmas, or Barbarism with a Human Face3.Innocents Abroad4.Dictatorship of the Professoriat?Part 3 Courageous Dissent, or the Grit and Grace of Public Heroics5.Revolutionary in Love with the Past6.The Galileo of the GDREpilogue AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“John Rodden is turning into the Studs Terkel of the GDR, a patient interlocutor who gets people talking and asks the probing question when it is needed. As time goes on, and both lives and memories fade, this kind of oral history record becomes increasingly valuable.”—Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College

John Rodden has taught at the University of Virginia and at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945–1995 (2002) and Textbook Reds: Schoolbooks, Ideology, and Eastern German Identity (Penn State, 2005).

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsPrologueIntroductionPart 1 Orwellian Dialectics, or the Stasi’s Psychoterror1.Of Pigs and Poison Shelves2.“Big Brother Was Watching Me” Part 2 Rosy Dogmas, or Barbarism with a Human Face3.Innocents Abroad4.Dictatorship of the Professoriat?Part 3 Courageous Dissent, or the Grit and Grace of Public Heroics5.Revolutionary in Love with the Past6.The Galileo of the GDREpilogue AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“John Rodden is turning into the Studs Terkel of the GDR, a patient interlocutor who gets people talking and asks the probing question when it is needed. As time goes on, and both lives and memories fade, this kind of oral history record becomes increasingly valuable.”—Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College