Work, workers, and politics in the german democratic republic

International Labor and Working-Class History

Volumn , Issue 50, 1996, Pages 44-63

  Wierling, Dorothee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 0030490550     PISSN: 01475479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s014754790001320x     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. An English-language introduction to this debate is offered in Mary Fulbrook, "New Historikerstreit, Missed Opportunities or New Beginning," German History 12 (1994):203-7.
2. I orient myself closer to Alf Lüdtke's concept of Eigensinn than to GDR research that takes the repressive political system in a more narrow sense as its main starting point. Alf Lüdtke, Eigen-Sinn. Fabrikalltag, Arbeitererfahrung und Politik vom Kaiserrich bis in den Faschismus (Hamburg, 1993).
3. Ulrich Herbert, "Arbeiterschaft im 'Dritten Reich:' Zwischenbilanz und offene Fragen," Geschichte und Gesellschaft 15 (1989):320-60; Timothy Mason, "The Containment of the Working Class in Nazi Germany," in idem., Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class (Cambridge, 1995), 231-73; Lutz Niethammer, ed., "Die Jahre weiss man nicht, wo man die heute hintun soll:" Faschismuserfahrungen im Ruhrgebiet (Bonn, 1983). See also Lüdke, Eigen-Sinn, 406ff; Marc Roseman, "World War II and Social Change in Germany," in Total War and Social Change, ed. Arthur Marwick (London, 1988), 58-78.
4. Ulrich Herbert, "Arbeiterschaft im 'Dritten Reich:' Zwischenbilanz und offene Fragen," Geschichte und Gesellschaft 15 (1989):320-60; Timothy Mason, "The Containment of the Working Class in Nazi Germany," in idem., Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class (Cambridge, 1995), 231-73; Lutz Niethammer, ed., "Die Jahre weiss man nicht, wo man die heute hintun soll:" Faschismuserfahrungen im Ruhrgebiet (Bonn, 1983). See also Lüdke, Eigen-Sinn, 406ff; Marc Roseman, "World War II and Social Change in Germany," in Total War and Social Change, ed. Arthur Marwick (London, 1988), 58-78.
5. Ulrich Herbert, "Arbeiterschaft im 'Dritten Reich:' Zwischenbilanz und offene Fragen," Geschichte und Gesellschaft 15 (1989):320-60; Timothy Mason, "The Containment of the Working Class in Nazi Germany," in idem., Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class (Cambridge, 1995), 231-73; Lutz Niethammer, ed., "Die Jahre weiss man nicht, wo man die heute hintun soll:" Faschismuserfahrungen im Ruhrgebiet (Bonn, 1983). See also Lüdke, Eigen-Sinn, 406ff; Marc Roseman, "World War II and Social Change in Germany," in Total War and Social Change, ed. Arthur Marwick (London, 1988), 58-78.
6. Ulrich Herbert, "Arbeiterschaft im 'Dritten Reich:' Zwischenbilanz und offene Fragen," Geschichte und Gesellschaft 15 (1989):320-60; Timothy Mason, "The Containment of the Working Class in Nazi Germany," in idem., Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class (Cambridge, 1995), 231-73; Lutz Niethammer, ed., "Die Jahre weiss man nicht, wo man die heute hintun soll:" Faschismuserfahrungen im Ruhrgebiet (Bonn, 1983). See also Lüdke, Eigen-Sinn, 406ff; Marc Roseman, "World War II and Social Change in Germany," in Total War and Social Change, ed. Arthur Marwick (London, 1988), 58-78.
7. Ulrich Herbert, "Arbeiterschaft im 'Dritten Reich:' Zwischenbilanz und offene Fragen," Geschichte und Gesellschaft 15 (1989):320-60; Timothy Mason, "The Containment of the Working Class in Nazi Germany," in idem., Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class (Cambridge, 1995), 231-73; Lutz Niethammer, ed., "Die Jahre weiss man nicht, wo man die heute hintun soll:" Faschismuserfahrungen im Ruhrgebiet (Bonn, 1983). See also Lüdke, Eigen-Sinn, 406ff; Marc Roseman, "World War II and Social Change in Germany," in Total War and Social Change, ed. Arthur Marwick (London, 1988), 58-78.
8. According to internal GDR opinion polls of youth, the mid-1970s were the high point of a positive identification with the GDR, less for political reasons and more due to economic strength and success in sports. See Walter Friedrich, "Mentalitätswandlungen in der Jugend der DDR," Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 16-17 (1990):25-37.
9. I refer to my own earlier attempt to sketch an East German identity after the end of the GDR: Dorothee Wierling, "Is There an East German Identity? Aspects of a Social History of the Soviet Zone/German Democratic Republic," Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte (Tel Aviv, 1990), 193-207. Writing in 1970, Uwe Johnson looked with a clear and cold perspective on the still-successful GDR. Johnson, "Versuch eine Mentalität zu erklären," in Kopfbahnhof Almanach 2: Das falsche Dasein (Leipzig, 1990), 233-44.
10. I refer to my own earlier attempt to sketch an East German identity after the end of the GDR: Dorothee Wierling, "Is There an East German Identity? Aspects of a Social History of the Soviet Zone/German Democratic Republic," Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte (Tel Aviv, 1990), 193-207. Writing in 1970, Uwe Johnson looked with a clear and cold perspective on the still-successful GDR. Johnson, "Versuch eine Mentalität zu erklären," in Kopfbahnhof Almanach 2: Das falsche Dasein (Leipzig, 1990), 233-44.