Description
Book SynopsisA comparative study of early post-1945 Central Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain which puts the people back into Cold War history
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Workers
1. Social protest in the Ruhr, 1945-1949 - Dick Geary
2. Young workers, the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the June 1953 uprising - Alan McDougal
3. Worker protest and the origins of the Austrian Social Partnership - Jill Lewis
4. Workers in Hungary - Mark Pittaway
Ethnic and linguistic minorities
1. Between ‘Heimat’ and ‘Expulsion’: the construction of the Sudeten German ‘Volksgruppe’ in post-war Germany - Eva Hahn
2. The Sorbs of Lusatia, the Socialist Unity Party and the Soviet Union (1945-1953) - Peter Barker
3. The Carinthian Slovenes - Robert Knight
4. Historical trauma in ethnic identity: the years of homelessness of the Hungarian minority in post-war Slovakia - Dagmar Kusá
Youth
1. ‘Reforming mentalities’: the Allies, young people, and ‘new music’ in Western Germany, 1945-1955 - Toby Thacker
2. Saints and devils: youth in the SBZ/GDR, 1945-1955 - Mark Fenemore
3. Austrian youth in the 1950s - Karin Schmidlechner
4. Sokol and the Communists: The Battle for Czech Youth, 1945-1948 - Mark Dimond
Women
1. Women, work and unemployment in post-war Germany - Vanessa Beck
2. Women and the Left in post-war Germany - Gareth Pritchard
3. Gender and abortion after the Second World War: the Austrian case in a comparative perspective - Maria Mesner
4. Hungarian women in politics - Andrea Petõ
Glossary
List of Contributors
