Between Reform and Revolution

by Barclay, David E.; Weitz, Eric D.

• ISBN13: 9781571811202
• ISBN10: 1571811206
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

The powerful impact of Socialism and Communism on modern German history is the theme which is explored by the contributors to this volume. Whereas previous investigations have tended to focus on political, intellectual and biographical aspects, this book captures, for the first time, the methodological and thematic diversity and richness of current work on the history of the German working class and the political movements that emerged from it. Based on original contributions from U.S., British, and German scholars, this collection address a wide range of themes and problems. David E. Barclayis Professor of History and Director of the Center for Western European Studies, Kalamazoo College; Eric D. Weitzis Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	ix
Introduction
David E. Barclay and Eric D. Weitz	1	(32)
Chapter 1
Diagnosing the "German Misery": Radicalism
and the Problem of National Character, 1830 to 1848
Warren Breckman	33	(30)
Chapter 2
Working-Class Politics at the Crossroads of Conservatism,
Liberalism, and Socialism
Hermann Beck	63	(24)
Chapter 3
The Lassallean Labor Movement in Germany:
Organization, Social Structure, and Associational
Life in the 1860s
Toni Offermann	87	(26)
Chapter 4
Burger and Workers: Liberalism and the Labor Movement
in Germany, 1848 to 1914
Ralf Roth	113	(28)
Chapter 5
"Genossen and Genossinnen": Depictions of Gender, Militancy,
and Organizing in the German Socialist Press, 1890-1914
Mary Jo Maynes	141	(26)
Chapter 6
The Social Democratic Electorate in Imperial Germany
Jonathan Sperber	167	(28)
Chapter 7
Latent Reformism and Socialist Utopia:
The SPD in Gottingen, 1890 to 1920
Adelheid von Saldern	195	(28)
Chapter 8
A Social Republic? Social Democrats, Communists,
and the Weimar Welfare State, 1919 to 1933
David F Crew	223	(28)
Chapter 9
The Iron Front: Weimar Social Democracy between
Tradition and Modernity
Donna Harsch	251	(24)
Chapter 10
Communism and the Public Spheres of Weimar Germany
Eric D. Weitz	275	(18)
Chapter 11
The Rise and Fall of Red Saxony
William Carl Mathews	293	(22)
Chapter 12
Cultural Socialism, the Public Sphere, and the
Mass Form: Popular Culture and the Democratic
Project, 1900 to 1934
Geoff Eley	315	(26)
Chapter 13
The Social Origins of Unity Sentiments in the
German Socialist Underground, 1933 to 1936
Gerd-Rainer Horn	341	(16)
Chapter 14
Communist Resistance between Comintern Directives
and Nazi Terror
Beatrix Herlemann	357	(16)
Chapter 15
Rethinking Social Democracy, the State, and Europe:
Rudolf Hilferding in Exile, 1933 to 1941
David E. Barclay	373	(24)
Chapter 16
Ordnungsmacht and Mitbestimmung: The Postwar
Labor Unions and the Politics of Reconstruction
Diethelm Prowe	397	(24)
Chapter 17
The Soviets, the German Left, and the Problem of
"Sectarianism" in the Eastern Zone, 1945 to 1949
Norman Naimark	421	(22)
Chapter 18
Pronatalism, Nationbuilding, and Socialism:
Population Policy in the SBZ/DDR, 1945 to 1960
Atina Grossmann	443	(24)
Chapter 19
German Social Democracy and European Unification, 1945 to 1955
Dietrich Orlow	467	(22)
Chapter 20
The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Everyday Life
in the DDR in the 1950s
Anna-Sabine Ernst	489	(18)
Chapter 21
Social Democratic Gender Policies, the Working-Class
Milieu, and the Culture of Domesticity in West
Germany in the 1950s and 1960s
Hanna Schissler	507	(24)
Chapter 22
Is the SPD Still a Labor Party? From "Community of
Solidarity" to "Loosely Coupled Anarchy"
Peter Losche	531	(16)
Chapter 23
Good-bye to All That: The Passing of German Communism
and the Rise of a New New Left
Eric D. Weitz	547	(10)
Selective Bibliography	557	(10)
List of Contributors	567	(4)
Index	571