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Title: | Who were ‘the people’? Classes and movements in East Germany, 1989 |
Authors: | Dale, G |
Keywords: | East Germany;1989;Class;Intelligentsia;Industrial relations;Social movements |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Citation: | Capital and Class, 34(2): 215 - 233, (June 2010) |
Abstract: | There is no shortage of literature on the East German revolution of 1989, but class analyses have been few and far between. In this paper, I survey a number of interpretations of the class composition of the 1989 movements—namely, that they comprised ‘the people’ or the intelligentsia—and find them wanting. I also subject Linda Fuller’s thesis on the non-participation of the working class to detailed examination. Against Fuller, I show that workers were involved en masse, and that although the decisive part they played was on the streets, this movement synergised with upheaval in workplaces, too. |
URI: | http://cnc.sagepub.com/content/34/2/215 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10781 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309816810365521 |
ISSN: | 0309-8168 2041-0980 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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