Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State - Rilegato

Weitz, Eric D.

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ISBN 10: 0691025940 ISBN 13: 9780691025940

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

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 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) against the background of Imperial and Weimar Germany, and clearly explains how the legacy of these periods shaped the character of the GDR to the very end of its existence.

In Weimar Germany, social democrats and Germany's old elites tried frantically to discipline a disordered society. Their strategies drove communists out of the workplace and into the streets, where the party gathered supporters in confrontations with the police, fascist organizations, and even socialists and employed workers. In the streets the party forged a politics of display and spectacle, which encouraged ideological pronouncements and harsh physical engagements rather than the mediation of practical political issues. Male physical prowess came to be venerated as the ultimate revolutionary quality. The KPD's gendered political culture then contributed to the intransigence that characterized the German Democratic Republic throughout its history. The communist leaders of the GDR remained imprisoned in policies forged in the Weimar Republic and became tragically removed from the desires and interests of their own populace.

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"This fully researched and readable account of German communism demonstrates the complexities of Germany's society and politics through the rise and fall of communism."--Choice

Contenuti:

	List of Illustrations
	List of Tables
	Acknowledgments
	List of Abbreviations
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	Regimes of Repression, Repertoires of Resistance	18
Ch. 2	War and Revolution and the Genesis of German Communism	62
Ch. 3	Reconstructing Order: State and Managerial Strategies in the Weimar Republic	100
Ch. 4	Contesting Order: Communists in the Workplace	132
Ch. 5	Contesting Order: Communists in the Streets	160
Ch. 6	The Gendering of German Communism	188
Ch. 6	Forging a Party Culture	233
Ch. 8	The Anni terribili: Communists under Two Dictatorships	280
Ch. 9	The Weimar Legacy and the Road to the DDR 1945-49	311
Ch. 10	The Primacy of Politics: State and Society in the DDR	357
	Conclusion: The End of a Tradition	387
	Bibliography	395
	Index	431

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0691025940
• ISBN 13: 9780691025940
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 445