Where Was the Working Class?: Revolution in Eastern Germany

by Linda Fuller

Book Overview

In six months bridging 1989 and 1990, the German Democratic Republic underwent a transformation that took the world almost completely by surprise. Yet unlike the revolution in Poland a decade earlier, only a small percentage of workers played apolitically active role in the fall of socialism in Germany.

In this unprecedented study, Linda Fuller sets out to explain why the working class was largely missing from the 1989-90 revolution. Drawing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252067517
• ISBN13: 9780252067518
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"