Between Reform and Revolution

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

• ISBN13: 9781571810007
• ISBN10: 1571810005
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• 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 addresses a wide range of themes and problems.

Table of Contents

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