Kopstein, Jeffrey:The politics of economic decline in East Germany, 1945-1989
- Paperback 1989, ISBN: 9780807823033
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UK: Berg Publishers Ltd. Very Good/Good. 1984. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0907582117 Dust jacket complete, unclipped, title has faded on spine, slight wear to edges. Cream cloth … More...
UK: Berg Publishers Ltd. Very Good/Good. 1984. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0907582117 Dust jacket complete, unclipped, title has faded on spine, slight wear to edges. Cream cloth with bright red titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 278 pages clean and tight. What did the First World War do to German society? How did social structures and changes influence the country's military performance? Did the war halt, redirect, or speed up long-term trends? This book provides an analysis of the responses of different social groups in Germany to each other and to the extraordinary pressure of nearly total war. Jurgen Kocka, one of the foremost social and economic historians of the younger generation in West Germany, provides a comprehensive overview of a whole society confronted with a basic challenge. A history of class interaction, class compromises and class conflict, the book also searches out a systematic explanation of the collapse of the Hohenzollern monarchy and the Revolution of 1918. This work is particularly valuable in showing the crucial role the social history of classes can have in accounting for historical developments in wartime. Methodologically indebted to Marxian and Weberian theory as well as to modern conflict research, it will appeal not only to historians of contemporary Germany, but to everyone interested in the political, social, and economic history of Western Europe. ., Berg Publishers Ltd, 1984, 2.5, London: Art Books Publishing Ltd., 2013 520 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Published in association with the Department of History of Art, University College London. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. "From the early decades of the 20th century until the 1980s, Marxist art history was at the forefront of radical approaches to the discipline. This collection of essays a festschrift in honour of leading Marxist art historian Andrew Hemingway brings together thirty academics who are reshaping art history along Marxist lines." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction. Towards a history of the Marxist history of art, by Warren Carter; MARXIST THEORY IN PRACTICE. Art history's furies, by John Roberts; The political logic of radical art history in California 1974-85: a memoir, by Stephen F. Eisenman; The dialectical legacies of radical art history: Meyer Shapiro and German aesthetic debates in the 1930s and 1940s, by Warren Carter; Approaching Marx's aesthetic: Or, what is sensuous practice?, by Stewart Martin; A communion of just men made perfect: Walter Pater, romantic anti-capitalism and the Paris Commune, by Matthew Beaumont; What remains of Adorno's critique of culture?, by Norbert Schneider; Aby Warburg and the spirit of capitalism, by Frederic J. Schwartz; LANDSCAPE, CLASS AND IDEOLOGY. A note on aestheticizing tendencies in American landscape painting 1840-80, by Alan Wallach; Meaning, change and ambiguity in Canadian landscape imagery: Homer Watson and The Pioneer mill, by Brian Foss; One spectator is a better witness than ten listeners: Roger North, making the past public, by Charles Ford; An ever-recurring controversy: John Thompson, William James Stillman and the Bootblacks, by Steve Edwards; Calaveras and commodity fetishism: the unhallowed supernatural in the work of Jose Guadalupe Posada, by Tom Gretton; Reading Ahab: Rockwell Kent, Herman Melville and C.L.R. James, by Angela Miller; William Morris, ornament and the coordinates of the body, by Caroline Arscott; MARXISM AND THE SHAPING OF MODERNISM. Red Hashar: Louis Lozowick's lithographs of Soviet Tajikstan, by Barnaby Haran; Lu Marten and the question of Marxist aesthetic in 1920s German, by Martin I. Gaughan; Experiment and propaganda: art in the monthly New masses, by Rachel Sanders; Stuart Davis and Left modernism on the New York waterfront in the 1920s, by Jody Patterson; Action, revolution and painting: resumed, by Fred Orton; Erasure and Jewishness in Otto Dix's Portraint of the lawyer Hugo Simons, by James A. van Dyke; The Nazi Party's strategic use of the Bauhaus: Marxist art history and the political conditions of artistic production, by Paul B. Jaskot; MARXISM IN A NEW WORLD ORDER. Realism and materialism in postwar European art, by Alex Potts; The situation of women, by Frances Tracey; Scars on the landscape: Doris Salcedo between two worlds, by Chin-tao Wu; Realism, totality and the militant Citoyen: or, What does Lukacs have to do with contemporary art?, by Gail Day; Deartification this side of art: ideology critique, autonomy and reproduction, by Kerstin Stakemeier.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible., Art Books Publishing Ltd., 2013, 5, London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1979. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Russians in the First International and the Paris Commune. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter 1: The Origins of Russian Social Democracy; Chapter 2: The New Russian Revolutionism; Chapter 3: The Russians and the International in 1869; Chapter 4: Sergio Furioso: Nechaev in 1869-70; Chapter 5: The Russian Section of the International; Chapter 6: Shifting Revolutionary Currents; Chapter 7: The Slav Émigrés and the Crisis of 1870; Chapter 8: The Slavs and the Paris Commune; Chapter 9: Apres-Commune; Chapter 10: The End of the First International; Chapter 11: Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations. SYNOPSIS: Revolutionary Exiles traces the efforts of one branch in the Russian revolutionary movement to find a coherent social theory upon which to base its opposition to tsarism and its appeal to the broad Russian masses. That search led to the International Working Men's Association, or First International (1864-1876), in which Marx and Engels played a central role and which Marx called the first working-class political party in history. Prof. McClellan provides a brief history of the International in the course of his study of the Russians who joined the organization and it is noteworthy that the International itself has received little or no attention from scholars writing in English over the past half a century, the Russians in the organization having been almost totally ignored. The book is based upon extensive research in Soviet and West European (Swiss, Austrian, Belgian, French, Dutch, British) historical archives and manuscripts. Prof. McClellan examines the penetration into Russia of Marxist influence in the late 1860s and early 1870s - over a decade before the founding in Geneva of George Plekhanov's "Group of the Liberation of Labour," which scholars had previously designated as the first Russian social-democratic organization. Prof. McClellan rejects that periodization, which is based upon Stalin's 1937 directive to the compilers of a history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the publications and political activity of the Russians in the First International and the Paris Commune, and of their correspondence with Marx and Engels, Prof. McClellan concludes that those Russians were indisputably social democrats - as much so as Marx's German lieutenants August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht - although they were not Marxists. His thesis is a controversial one which is certain to generate considerable discussion. Prof. McClellan includes in his book a survey of the activities of Marx's great Russian opponent in the International, Michael Bakunin. He seeks to prove that contrary to widely accepted opinion, the Marx-Bakunin controversy was not the major cause for the collapse of the First International. Rather, he indicates, it was the violent, European-wide counter-revolution that followed the Paris Commune which broke the back of the working-class organization. The saga of the notorious revolutionary and criminal Sergei Nechaev runs through the story as a counterpoint to the main theme. Nechaev, the model for Peter Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's The Possessed, strangely adumbrates the Baader/Meinhof gang in West Germany and other terrorists today. Pretending political motives, which he used to justify even the murder of one of his colleagues, Nechaev resorted to pure gangsterism. For a time his violent escapades, and the anarchist preachments of his sometime friend Bakunin, threatened to obscure the serious political work being done by the Russians who joined the First International. The story of the Russians (and Poles) in the Paris Commune of March-May, 1871, also looms large here. They played active political roles and helped to create the great myth of the insurrection.... First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1979, 2.75, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 24 cm.. 0708b Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-238) and index.About the book:Jeffrey Kopstein offers the first comprehensive study of East German economic policy over the course of the state's forty-year history. Analyzing both the making of economic policy at the national level and the implementation of specific policies on the shop floor, he provides new and essential background to the revolution of 1989. In particular, he shows how decisions made at critical junctures in East Germany's history led to a pattern of economic decline and worker dissatisfaction that contributed to eventual political collapse. East Germany was generally considered to have the most successful economy in the Eastern Bloc, but Kopstein explores what prevented the country's leaders from responding effectively to pressing economic problems. He depicts a regime caught between the demands of a disaffected working class whose support was crucial to continued political stability, an intractable bureaucracy, an intolerant but surprisingly weak Soviet patron state, and a harsh international economic climate. Rather than pushing for genuine economic change, the East German Communist Party retreated into what Kopstein calls a 'campaign economy' in which an endless series of production campaigns was used to squeeze greater output from an inherently inefficient economic system.Originally published in 1996.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value., University of North Carolina Press, 4<
