Chapter 10 Communism and the Public Spheres of Weimar Germany

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. Chapter 1 Diagnosing the “German Misery”: Radicalism and the Problem of National Character, 1830 to 1848 33
6. Chapter 2 Working-Class Politics at the Crossroads of Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism 63
7. Chapter 3 The Lassallean Labor Movement in Germany: Organization, Social Structure, and Associational Life in the 1860s 87
8. Chapter 4 Bürger and Workers: Liberalism and the Labor Movement in Germany, 1848 to 1914 113
9. Chapter 5 “Genossen und Genossinnen”: Depictions of Gender, Militancy, and Organizing in the German Socialist Press, 1890-1914 141
10. Chapter 6 The Social Democratic Electorate in Imperial Germany 167
11. Chapter 7 Latent Reformism and Socialist Utopia: The SPD in Göttingen, 1890 to 1920 195
12. Chapter 8 A Social Republic? Social Democrats, Communists, and the Weimar Welfare State, 1919 to 1933 223
13. Chapter 9 The Iron Front: Weimar Social Democracy between Tradition and Modernity 251
14. Chapter 10 Communism and the Public Spheres of Weimar Germany 275
15. Chapter 11 The Rise and Fall of Red Saxony 293
16. Chapter 12 Cultural Socialism, the Public Sphere, and the Mass Form: Popular Culture and the Democratic Project, 1900 to 1934 315
17. Chapter 13 The Social Origins of Unity Sentiments in the German Socialist Underground, 1933 to 1936 341
18. Chapter 14 Communist Resistance between Comintern Directives and Nazi Terror 357
19. Chapter 15 Rethinking Social Democracy, the State, and Europe: Rudolf Hilferding in Exile, 1933 to 1941 373
20. Chapter 16 Ordnungsmacht and Mitbestimmung: The Postwar Labor Unions and the Politics of Reconstruction 397
21. Chapter 17 The Soviets, the German Left, and the Problem of “Sectarianism” in the Eastern Zone, 1945 to 1949 421
22. Chapter 18 Pronatalism, Nationbuilding, and Socialism: Population Policy in the SBZ/DDR, 1945 to 1960 443
23. Chapter 19 German Social Democracy and European Unification, 1945 to 1955 467
24. Chapter 20 The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Everyday Life in the DDR in the 1950s 489
25. Chapter 21 Social Democratic Gender Policies, the Working-Class Milieu, and the Culture of Domesticity in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s 507
26. Chapter 22 Is the SPD Still a Labor Party? From “Community of Solidarity” to “Loosely Coupled Anarchy” 531
27. Chapter 23 Good-bye to All That: The Passing of German Communism and the Rise of a New New Left 547
28. SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY 557
29. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 567
30. INDEX 571