Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic

Andrew I. Port is an Assistant Professor of History at Wayne State University, Detroit. He earned a PhD in history from Harvard University and a BA in history from Yale University. He has published articles in Social History and the Frankfürter Allgemeine Zeitung. Professor Port is a research associate at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and he was a visiting scholar at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Center for Contemporary Historical Research) in Potsdam, Germany.

• Part I. Upheaval (1945–53): 1. Creating a 'new order'; 2. The GDR's 'first strike'; 3. The revolution manqué of June 1953; Part II. The Calm after the Storm (1953–71): 4. The limits of repression; 5. Exit, voice, and apathy; 6. Power in the people's factories; 7. Achieving harmony on the shop floor; 8. Divide and rule?; 9. 'I comes before we' in the countryside; 10. 'Whatever happened to the classless society?'

'[Port's] study makes a significant contribution to the history of the GDR and to scholarly debate about the relationship between state and society in Stalinist states.' Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University