Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction3Ch. 1Regimes of Repression, Repertoires of Resistance18Ch. 2War and Revolution and the Genesis of German Communism62Ch. 3Reconstructing Order: State and Managerial Strategies in the Weimar Republic100Ch. 4Contesting Order: Communists in the Workplace132Ch. 5Contesting Order: Communists in the Streets160Ch. 6The Gendering of German Communism188Ch. 6Forging a Party Culture233Ch. 8The Anni terribili: Communists under Two Dictatorships280Ch. 9The Weimar Legacy and the Road to the DDR 1945-49311Ch. 10The Primacy of Politics: State and Society in the DDR357Conclusion: The End of a Tradition387Bibliography395Index431

About the Author

Eric D. Weitz (1953–2021) was Distinguished Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He was also the author of A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States; Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice; and A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (all Princeton).

Reviews

"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