JOURNAL ARTICLE

Detlef Siegfried, Bogensee – Weltrevolution in der DDR 1961–1989.

  • Published In: Cultural History, 2023, v. 12, n. 1. P. 139 1 of 3

  • Database: America: History and Life with Full Text 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Kessler, Mario 3 of 3

Abstract

At least as serious was the contradiction in which the GDR entangled itself by promoting official contacts between young people from different countries on the one hand but preventing private contacts between its citizens and the guests from the "non-socialist foreign countries" on the other. Euro-Communism (the term was not popular in the GDR) and national ideas about reform and revolution in general were increasingly difficult to reconcile with the GDR's (and the Soviet Union's) postulates about a unified world communist movement. The Free German Youth (FDJ), founded in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany, then the German Democratic Republic (GDR), at the beginning of 1946, initially saw itself as a non-party anti-fascist youth organization. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Cultural History. 2023/04, Vol. 12, Issue 1, p139
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:2045-290X
  • DOI:10.3366/cult.2023.0281
  • Accession Number:163044307
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