Modern Germany: Society, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Abstract

List of maps Preface Abbreviations Glossary Part I. Wilhelmine Germany, 1900-1914: Rapid Industrialisation and its Impact on Society 1. Stratification and social mobility 2. The Prusso-German political system and its political culture 3. Weltpolitik and the spectre of encirclement Part II. War and Civil War, 1914-1923: The Political and Military Situation at the Beginning of the War 4. The strains of total war 5. Reaction, reform and revolutionary ferment 6. The Revolutions of 1918-19 7. Economic dislocation and counter-revolution, 1919-1923 Part III. The Weimar Republic Between Stabilisation and Collapse, 1924-1933: Intellectual and Cultural Activity 8. Party politics and the problem of parliamentary government 9. Weimar foreign policy 10. Economic tensions and the rise of the Nazis 11. From Bruning to Hitler Part IV. The Third Reich, 1933-1945: The Face of the Nazi Dictatorship 12. Economic conditions and mobilisation for war 13. Nazi foreign policy and war aims 14. Occupation, exploitation and extermination 15. Resistance and collaboration during the final years Part V. Occupation and Division, 1945-1960: Economic and Political Life in the Western Zones of Occupation 16. The Russian Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949 17. The shaping of the Federal Republic of germany, 1949-1960 18. Soviet Western policy and the consolidation of East Germany Part VI. The Two Germanies Since the 1960s: The Development of the East German Economy, 1960-1985 19. Society ad politics in contemporary East Germany 20. West German capitalism and the international economy 21. Problems of political stability 22. Culture and society in West Germany Statistical tables Chronological table Select bibliography Index.