Introduction: Workers and socialist states in Postwar central and Eastern Europe

International Labor and Working-Class History

Volumn 68, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-8

  Pittaway, Mark ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33749347380     PISSN: 01475479     EISSN: 14716445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0147547905000165     Document Type: Review

References (40)

1. For overviews of this work see Corey Ross, The East German Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of the GDR, (London, 2002);
2. Mary Fulbrook, Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, (Oxford, 1996);
3. the essays in Konrad H. Jarausch, ed., Dictatorship as Experience: Towards a Socio-cultural History of the GDR, trans. Eve Duffy, (Oxford, 1999),
4. and Richard Bessel, & Ralph Jessen, eds., Die Grenzen der Diktatur: Staat und Gesellschaft in der DDR, (Göttingen, 1996).
5. Peter Hübner, Konsens, Konflikt und Kompromi?: Soziale Arbeiterinteressen und Sozialpolitikin der SBZ/DDR 1945 bis 1970, (Berlin, 1995);
6. Peter Hübner & Klaus Tenfelde, eds., Arbeiter in der SBZ-DDR, (Essen, 1999);
7. Jeffrey Kopstein, The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989, (Chapel Hill, NC, 1997);
8. Andrew Port, "When Workers Rumbled: the Wismut Upheaval of August 1951 in East Germany," Social History, 22.2 (May 1997), 145-173.
9. For one distinguished attempt to analyze the meaning of mass popular protest in Central and Eastern Europe, see Gregorz Ekiert, The State Against Society: Political Crises and their Aftermath in East-Central Europe, (Princeton NJ, 1996);
10. on the events of 1953 in the GDR see Gareth Pritchard, The Making of the GDR 1945-1953: from Anti-fascism to Stalinism, (Manchester, 2000), 194-224;
11. for Poland, see Roman Laba, The Roots of Solidarity: A Political Sociology of Poland's Working-Class Democratization, (Princeton, NJ, 1991);
12. for Hungary in 1956 see Bill Lomax, Hungary 1956, (London, 1976),
13. and for Romania in 1989, see Peter SianiDavies. The Romanian Revolution of December 1989, (Ithaca. NY, 2005).
14. See the items cited in note 2 above; for a useful analysis of the role of workers in the GDR in the later socialist period, see Jeanette Z. Madarasz, Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971-1989: A Precarious Stability, (Basingstoke, 2003).
15. For Kenney's work on the late 1940s in Poland, see Padraic Kenney, Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950, (Ithaca, NY, 1997);
16. for the extension of his analysis, see Padraic Kenney, "The Gender of Resistance in Communist Poland," American Historical Review, 104.2 (April 1999), 399-425.
17. Kenney, Rebuilding Poland, 189-334.
18. See especially Mark Pittaway, "The Reproduction of Hierarchy: Skill, Working-Class Culture and the State in Early Socialist Hungary," The Journal of Modern History, 12 A (December 2002), 737-69;
19. Mark Pittaway, "The Social Limits of State Control: Time, the Industrial Wage Relation and Social Identity in Stalinist Hungary, 1948-1953," Journal of Historical Sociology, 12.3 (September 1999), 271-301.
20. Katherine A. Lebow, "Public Works, Private Lives: Youth Brigades in Nowa Huta in the 1950s," Contemporary European History, 10.2 (May 2001), 199-219.
21. Mark Pittaway, "Control and Consent in Eastern Europe's Workers' States. 1945-1989: Some Reflections on Totalitarianism, Social Organization and Social Control," in Clive Emsley, Eric Johnson, & Pieter Spierenburg, eds. Social Control in Europe, 1800-2000, (Columbus OH, 2004), 343-67.
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25. Donald Filtzer Soviet workers and Stalinist industrialization: The formation of modern Soviet production relations, 1928-1941 (London, 1986);
26. Hiroaki Kuromiya Stalin's Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928-1932 (Cambridge, 1988);
27. Lewis H. Siegelbaum Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (Cambridge, 1988);
28. Lewis H. Siegelbaum & Ronald Grigor Suny, eds., Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class and Identity, eds., (Ithaca, NY, 1994);
29. Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (Berkeley, 1995);
30. Kenneth M. Straus Factory and Community in Stalin's Russia. The Making of an Industrial Working Class (Pittsburgh, 1997);
31. Sheila Fitzpatrick Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Oxford, 1999).
32. I explore many of these themes for Hungary in Pittaway, "The Reproduction of Hierarchy."
33. Mark Pittaway, Eastern Europe, 1939-2000 (London, 2004), Chapter 4.
34. Ina Merkel, Utopie und Bedürfnis. Die Geschichte der Konsumkultur in der DDR, (Köln, 1999);
35. Patrick Hyder Patterson "The New Class: Consumer Culture under Socialism and the Unmaking of the Yugoslav Dream, 1945-1991" (PhD. Diss., The University of Michigan, 2001);
36. Susan E. Reid & David Crowley, eds., Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in Postwar Eastern Europe, (Oxford, 2000);
37. Timothy W. Ryback, Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Oxford, 1990).
38. There is very little research to date on the role of workers in the events of the 1980s across the region. For studies which contain some stimulating suggestions, see Michael Burawoy & János Lukács, The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism, (Chicago, 1992);
39. Linda Fuller, Where Was the Working Class? Revolution in Eastern Germany, (Urbana, IL, 1999);
40. Anikó Eszter Bartha, "The Disloyal 'Ruling Class': the Conflict between Ideology and Experience in Hungary," in Peter Hübner, Christoph Kleßmann, eds., Arbeiter im Staatsozialismus: Ideologischer Anspruch und soziale Wirklichkeit, (Köln, 2005), 141-62.