Between Reform and Revolution

David E. Barclay is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Western European Studies, Kalamazoo College.

"... a rich, complex, authoritative, scholarly survey of Germany's socialist heritage."  · The Midwest Book Review"Can twenty-three essays present the history of German socialism and communism, as well as those movements' members, supporters, and policies in the context of social history? This fine collection comes close to achieving that difficult task ... A very high quality work."  · Central European History"Certainly the best collection of essays on the SPD and KPD ... The editors and contributors ... have provided fresh intrepretations ... and have set a high standard for present and future scholars."  · H-Net Reviews

• List of AbbreviationsIntroductionDavid E. Barclay and Eric D. WeitzChapter 1. Diagnosing the “German Misery”: Radicalism and the Problem of National Character, 1830 to 1848Warren BreckmanChapter 2. Working-Class Politics at the Crossroads of Conservatism, Liberalism, and SocialismHermann BeckChapter 3. The Lassallean Labor Movement in Germany: Organization, Social Structure, and Associational Life in the 1860sToni OffermannChapter 4. Bürger and Workers: Liberalism and the Labor Movement in Germany, 1848 to 1914Ralf Roth Chapter 5. “Genossen und Genossinnen”: Depictions of Gender, Militancy, and Organizing in the German Socialist Press, 1890-1914Mary Jo MaynesChapter 6. The Social Democratic Electorate in Imperial GermanyJonathan SperberChapter 7. Latent Reformism and Socialist Utopia: The SPD in Göttingen, 1890 to 1920Adelheid von SaldernChapter 8. A Social Republic? Social Democrats, Communists, and the Weimar Welfare State, 1919 to 1933David F. CrewChapter 9. The Iron Front: Weimar Social Democracy between Tradition and ModernityDonna HarschChapter 10. Communism and the Public Spheres of Weimar GermanyEric D. WeitzChapter 11. The Rise and Fall of Red SaxonyWilliam Carl MathewsChapter 12. Cultural Socialism, the Public Sphere, and the Mass Form: Popular Culture and the Democratic Project, 1900 to 1934Geoff EleyChapter 13. The Social Origins of Unity Sentiments in the German Socialist Underground, 1933 to 1936Gerd-Rainer HornChapter 14. Communist Resistance between Comintern Directives and Nazi TerrorBeatrix HerlemannChapter 15. Rethinking Social Democracy, the State, and Europe: Rudolf Hilferding in Exile, 1933 to 1941David E. BarclayChapter 16. Ordnungsmacht and Mitbestimmung: The Postwar Labor Unions and the Politics of ReconstructionDiethelm ProweChapter 17. The Soviets, the German Left, and the Problem of “Sectarianism” in the Eastern Zone, 1945 to 1949Norman NaimarkChapter 18. Pronatalism, Nationbuilding, and Socialism: Population Policy in the SBZ/DDR, 1945 to 1960Atina GrossmannChapter 19. German Social Democracy and European Unification, 1945 to 1955Dietrich OrlowChapter 20. The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Everyday Life in the DDR in the 1950sAnna-Sabine ErnstChapter 21. Social Democratic Gender Policies, the Working-Class Milieu, and the Culture of Domesticity in WestGermany in the 1950s and 1960sHanna SchisslerChapter 22. Is the SPD Still a Labor Party? From “Community of Solidarity” to “Loosely Coupled Anarchy”Peter LöscheChapter 23. Good-bye to All That: The Passing of German Communism and the Rise of a New New LeftEric D. WeitzSelective BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex