Modern Germany: Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century

by V. R. Berghahn

• ISBN13: 9780521347488
• ISBN10: 0521347483
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-11-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book aims to give a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the development of Germany in the twentieth century, a country whose history has decisively shaped the map and the politics of modern Europe and the world in which we live. Professor Berghahn is not concerned merely with politics and diplomacy, but also with social change, economic performance and industrial relations. His appendix contains fifty tables of invaluable statistical information including industrial and agricultural production, employment, voting patterns and education.

Table of Contents

List of maps

Preface

Abbreviations

Glossary

Part I. Wilhelmine Germany, 1900-1914: Rapid Industrialisation and its Impact on Society

1. Stratification and social mobility

2. The Prusso-German political system and its political culture

3. Weltpolitik and the spectre of encirclement

Part II. War and Civil War, 1914-1923: The Political and Military Situation at the Beginning of the War

4. The strains of total war

5. Reaction, reform and revolutionary ferment

6. The Revolutions of 1918-19

7. Economic dislocation and counter-revolution, 1919-1923

Part III. The Weimar Republic Between Stabilisation and Collapse, 1924-1933: Intellectual and Cultural Activity

8. Party politics and the problem of parliamentary government

9. Weimar foreign policy

10. Economic tensions and the rise of the Nazis

11. From Brü

ning to Hitler

Part IV. The Third Reich, 1933-1945: The Face of the Nazi Dictatorship

12. Economic conditions and mobilisation for war

13. Nazi foreign policy and war aims

14. Occupation, exploitation and extermination

15. Resistance and collaboration during the final years

Part V. Occupation and Division, 1945-1960: Economic and Political Life in the Western Zones of Occupation

16. The Russian Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949

17. The shaping of the Federal Republic of germany, 1949-1960

18. Soviet Western policy and the consolidation of East Germany

Part VI. The Two Germanies Since the 1960s: The Development of the East German Economy, 1960-1985

19. Society ad politics in contemporary East Germany

20. West German capitalism and the international economy

21. Problems of political stability

22. Culture and society in West Germany

Statistical tables

Chronological table

Select bibliography

Index.