Creating German Communism, 1890-1990 : : From Popular Protests to Socialist State / / Eric D. Weitz.

Eric Weitz presents a social and political history of German communism from its beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century to the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1990. In the first book in English or in German to explore this entire period, Weitz describes the emergence of the Com...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1997
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.) :; 30 halftones 10 line drawings 7 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1 Regimes of Repression, Repertoires of Resistance
  • CHAPTER 2 War and Revolution and the Genesis of German Communism
  • CHAPTER 3 Reconstructing Order: State and Managerial Strategies in the Weimar Republic
  • CHAPTER 4 Contesting Order: Communists in the Workplace
  • CHAPTER 5 Contesting Order: Communists in the Streets
  • CHAPTER 6 The Gendering of German Communism
  • CHAPTER 7 Forging a Party Culture
  • CHAPTER 8 The Anni terribili: Communists under Two Dictatorships
  • CHAPTER 9 The Weimar Legacy and the Road to the DDR 1945-49
  • CHAPTER 10 The Primacy of Politics: State and Society in the DDR
  • CONCLUSION The End of a Tradition
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR