Power and the people

Eleonore Breuning is Emerita Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Wales Swansea. Jill Lewis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Wales Swansea. Gareth Pritchard is the Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

A comparative study of early post-1945 Central Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain which puts the people back into Cold War history

IntroductionWorkers1. Social protest in the Ruhr, 1945-1949 - Dick Geary2. Young workers, the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the June 1953 uprising - Alan McDougal3. Worker protest and the origins of the Austrian Social Partnership - Jill Lewis4. Workers in Hungary - Mark PittawayEthnic and linguistic minorities1. Between 'Heimat' and 'Expulsion': the construction of the Sudeten German 'Volksgruppe' in post-war Germany - Eva Hahn2. The Sorbs of Lusatia, the Socialist Unity Party and the Soviet Union (1945-1953) - Peter Barker3. The Carinthian Slovenes - Robert Knight4. Historical trauma in ethnic identity: the years of homelessness of the Hungarian minority in post-war Slovakia - Dagmar KusáYouth1. 'Reforming mentalities': the Allies, young people, and 'new music' in Western Germany, 1945-1955 - Toby Thacker2. Saints and devils: youth in the SBZ/GDR, 1945-1955 - Mark Fenemore3. Austrian youth in the 1950s - Karin Schmidlechner4. Sokol and the Communists: The Battle for Czech Youth, 1945-1948 - Mark DimondWomen1. Women, work and unemployment in post-war Germany - Vanessa Beck2. Women and the Left in post-war Germany - Gareth Pritchard3. Gender and abortion after the Second World War: the Austrian case in a comparative perspective - Maria Mesner4. Hungarian women in politics - Andrea PetõGlossaryList of Contributors