Between Reform and Revolution

German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990

David E. Barclay, Eric D. Weitz

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9781571810007
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781836956273
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: German History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - Diagnosing the “German Misery”: Radicalism and the Problem of National Character, 1830 to 1848
• Chapter 2 - Working-Class Politics at the Crossroads of Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism
• Chapter 3 - The Lassallean Labor Movement in Germany: Organization, Social Structure, and Associational Life in the 1860s
• Chapter 4 - Bürger and Workers: Liberalism and the Labor Movement in Germany, 1848 to 1914
• Chapter 5 - “Genossen und Genossinnen”: Depictions of Gender, Militancy, and Organizing in the German Socialist Press, 1890-1914
• Chapter 6 - The Social Democratic Electorate in Imperial Germany
• Chapter 7 - Latent Reformism and Socialist Utopia: The Spd in Göttingen, 1890 to 1920
• Chapter 8 - A Social Republic? Social Democrats, Communists, and the Weimar Welfare State, 1919 to 1933
• Chapter 9 - The Iron Front: Weimar Social Democracy between Tradition and Modernity
• Chapter 10 - Communism and the Public Spheres of Weimar Germany
• Chapter 11 - The Rise and Fall of Red Saxony
• Chapter 12 - Cultural Socialism, the Public Sphere, and the Mass Form: Popular Culture and the Democratic Project, 1900 to 1934
• Chapter 13 - The Social Origins of Unity Sentiments in the German Socialist Underground, 1933 to 1936
• Chapter 14 - Communist Resistance between Comintern Directives and Nazi Terror
• Chapter 15 - Rethinking Social Democracy, the State, and Europe: Rudolf Hilferding in Exile, 1933 to 1941
• Chapter 16 - Ordnungsmacht and Mitbestimmung: The Postwar Labor Unions and the Politics of Reconstruction
• Chapter 17 - The Soviets, the German Left, and the Problem of “Sectarianism” in the Eastern Zone, 1945 to 1949
• Chapter 18 - Pronatalism, Nationbuilding, and Socialism: Population Policy in the Sbz/Ddr, 1945 to 1960
• Chapter 19 - German Social Democracy and European Unification, 1945 to 1955
• Chapter 20 - The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Everyday Life in the Ddr in the 1950s
• Chapter 21 - Social Democratic Gender Policies, the Working-Class Milieu, and the Culture of Domesticity in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s
• Chapter 22 - Is the Spd Still a Labor Party? from “Community of Solidarity” to “Loosely Coupled Anarchy”
• Chapter 23 - Good-bye to all That: The Passing of German Communism and the Rise of a New New Left
• Selective Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Index