Andrew I Port
Biographic Data
| ID | 5693036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew I Port |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew I |
| FAMILY NAME | Port |
| SIGNATURE | PORT A I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Norbert Frei, Im Namen der Deutschen. Die Bundespräsidenten und die NS-Vergangenheit. München, C. H. Beck 2023
Never Again
Andrew Demshuk. Demolition on Karl Marx Square
Andrew Demshuk’s Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism and the People’s State in 1968 is a spirited local study that looks at the destruction of a major historical landmark in communist East Germany and, more specifically, at public reactions to that controversial decision. In many respects, this is a new point of departure from Demshuk’s earlier work The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945–1970 (2012)…
In Memory of the “Two Helmuts”
Between them, the chancellorships of the “two Helmuts” span nearly a quarter-century of German history. Helmut Schmidt led the country from 1974 to 1982; his successor, Helmut Kohl, served until 1998. But the verdict on their respective tenures has been very different. Kohl was seen as a bumbling provincial when he came to office in 1982 but, by the end of his second term, he had won a place in the history books as the “Chancellor of Unity” ( Ein…
Rethinking Regime Stability
In the early 1950s, East German officials at the storied Maxhütte steel mill in Thuringia collected short CVs or “life stories” ( Lebensläufe ) written by approximately 370 blue- and white-collar workers who had recently become Stakhanovite “activists”. These documents, which all contain the same basic biographical information about the authors – from their socioeconomic background to their political activities – shed light on a group that has re…
Awkward Encounters’
In the spring of 1990, several months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, two incidents had a transformative effect on how I would later come to think about the soon-to-be-defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR). While walking together in downtown Halle, a friend from West Berlin commented almost absentmindedly that if it had not been for the Federal Republic—and by this she meant West German wealth and consumption levels—East Germans would likel…
Holocaust Scholarship and Politics in the Public Sphere
Last year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the so-called Historikerstreit (historians’ quarrel), as well as the twentieth anniversary of the lively debate sparked by the publication in 1996 of Daniel J. Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust . To mark the occasion, Central European History ( CEH ) has invited a group of seven specialists from Australia, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States to com…
History from Below, the History of Everyday Life, and Microhistory
Courting China, Condemning China
After the overthrow of Pol Pot and the genocidal Khmer Rouge in early 1979, a major international dispute erupted over who had the right to represent Cambodia in the international arena. Whereas the GDR immediately recognized the new regime installed by Vietnam (a close ally of the Soviet bloc and an arch-foe of China), West Germany gave staunch diplomatic support to the internationally reviled Khmer Rouge. This provoked a storm of public protest…
Central European History since 1989
In a luncheon address at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association in 2013, David Blackbourn delivered an impassioned plaidoyer to “grow” German history, i.e., to rescue it from the temporal “provincialism” that has, he believes, increasingly characterized the study of Germany over the past two decades. Blackbourn was critical of the growing emphasis on the twentieth century and especially the post-1945 period—not because of the qualit…
Die DDR--eine deutsche Geschichte
German Festschriften provide an opportunity for the close colleagues and doctoral students of a German Ordinarius to pay homage to a venerable scholar toward the close of his or her career, and usually consist of essays related in some way to, or inspired by, that scholar’s own œuvre. The Festschrift under review here is dedicated to Werner Müller, a prolific professor of modern German history at the University of Rostock, a maritime city located…
Kumpel, Kader und Genossen
As Europe’s largest producer of uranium during the Cold War, the East German Wismut mining company has garnered a great deal of scholarly attention since the fall of the Berlin Wall. To that extent, the publisher’s claim on the back cover that Juliane Schütterle’s dissertation is the ‘first detailed analysis’ of this top-secret enterprise is misleading. That said, it is the most in-depth investigation of the social history of that organisation. B…
Pertti Ahonen. Death at the Berlin Wall
The fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 predictably produced a spate of popular and scholarly studies about the infamous structure that quickly became the symbol of German division and the Cold War. Looking at the intersection between high politics and everyday life, the two monographs under review here are both interested in the “human dimensions” and “human costs” of the wall. Pertti Ahonen concentrates on…
Endspiel. Die Revolution von 1989 in der DDR
Love, Lust, and Lies under Communism
According to a joke that made the rounds in the former Soviet Union, women from different countries held on to their husbands in different ways: the German by her skills as a housewife, the Spaniard by her passionate lovemaking, the Frenchwoman by her refined elegance—and the Russian by the party committee. This sexist quip was a not so oblique reference to the ways in which the communist party intervened in the private domestic affairs of its me…
Gerhard Wettig, Stalin and the Cold War in Europe
January 01 2009 Gerhard Wettig, Stalin and the Cold War in Europe: The Emergence and Development of East-West Conflict, 1939–1953 Andrew I. Port Andrew I. Port Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrew I. Port Online ISSN: 1531-3298 Print ISSN: 1520-3972 © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 Journal of Cold War Studies (2009) 11 (1): 161–164. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.20…
Mark Landsman, Dictatorship and Demand
January 01 2008 Mark Landsman, Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany Andrew I. Port Andrew I. Port Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrew I. Port Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 Journal of Cold War Studies (2008) 10 (1): 161–163. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2008.10.1.161 Cite Icon Cite Per…
Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe
This collection of articles by an international group of historians, sociologists and political scientists offers an extremely useful introduction to recent research about the varieties of resistance and revolution that took place in eastern Europe after 1945. It is divided into three roughly chronological sections. The first section focuses on the Soviet-Yugoslav split of 1948, the East German uprising of June 1953, and the 1956 disturbances in …
When workers rumbled
A young woman living in Saalfeld, a small industrial city in south-eastern Thuringia not far from the Bavarian border, wrote these words in a private letter sent to her relatives in August i151, almost two years before the well-known East German uprising of June 1953.1 She was describing events, prompted by the arrest there of several uranium miners, which culminated in the storming of the local prison and police precinct, as panic-stricken offic…
Holocaust Scholarship and Politics in the Public Sphere
Last year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the so-called Historikerstreit (historians’ quarrel), as well as the twentieth anniversary of the lively debate sparked by the publication in 1996 of Daniel J. Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust . To mark the occasion, Central European History ( CEH ) has invited a group of seven specialists from Australia, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States to com…
Central European History since 1989
In a luncheon address at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association in 2013, David Blackbourn delivered an impassioned plaidoyer to “grow” German history, i.e., to rescue it from the temporal “provincialism” that has, he believes, increasingly characterized the study of Germany over the past two decades. Blackbourn was critical of the growing emphasis on the twentieth century and especially the post-1945 period—not because of the qualit…
When workers rumbled
A young woman living in Saalfeld, a small industrial city in south-eastern Thuringia not far from the Bavarian border, wrote these words in a private letter sent to her relatives in August i151, almost two years before the well-known East German uprising of June 1953.1 She was describing events, prompted by the arrest there of several uranium miners, which culminated in the storming of the local prison and police precinct, as panic-stricken offic…
In Memory of the “Two Helmuts”
Between them, the chancellorships of the “two Helmuts” span nearly a quarter-century of German history. Helmut Schmidt led the country from 1974 to 1982; his successor, Helmut Kohl, served until 1998. But the verdict on their respective tenures has been very different. Kohl was seen as a bumbling provincial when he came to office in 1982 but, by the end of his second term, he had won a place in the history books as the “Chancellor of Unity” ( Ein…
Courting China, Condemning China
After the overthrow of Pol Pot and the genocidal Khmer Rouge in early 1979, a major international dispute erupted over who had the right to represent Cambodia in the international arena. Whereas the GDR immediately recognized the new regime installed by Vietnam (a close ally of the Soviet bloc and an arch-foe of China), West Germany gave staunch diplomatic support to the internationally reviled Khmer Rouge. This provoked a storm of public protest…
Love, Lust, and Lies under Communism
According to a joke that made the rounds in the former Soviet Union, women from different countries held on to their husbands in different ways: the German by her skills as a housewife, the Spaniard by her passionate lovemaking, the Frenchwoman by her refined elegance—and the Russian by the party committee. This sexist quip was a not so oblique reference to the ways in which the communist party intervened in the private domestic affairs of its me…
When workers rumbled
A young woman living in Saalfeld, a small industrial city in south-eastern Thuringia not far from the Bavarian border, wrote these words in a private letter sent to her relatives in August i151, almost two years before the well-known East German uprising of June 1953.1 She was describing events, prompted by the arrest there of several uranium miners, which culminated in the storming of the local prison and police precinct, as panic-stricken offic…
Mark Landsman, Dictatorship and Demand
January 01 2008 Mark Landsman, Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany Andrew I. Port Andrew I. Port Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrew I. Port Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 Journal of Cold War Studies (2008) 10 (1): 161–163. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2008.10.1.161 Cite Icon Cite Per…
Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe
This collection of articles by an international group of historians, sociologists and political scientists offers an extremely useful introduction to recent research about the varieties of resistance and revolution that took place in eastern Europe after 1945. It is divided into three roughly chronological sections. The first section focuses on the Soviet-Yugoslav split of 1948, the East German uprising of June 1953, and the 1956 disturbances in …
Gerhard Wettig, Stalin and the Cold War in Europe
January 01 2009 Gerhard Wettig, Stalin and the Cold War in Europe: The Emergence and Development of East-West Conflict, 1939–1953 Andrew I. Port Andrew I. Port Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrew I. Port Online ISSN: 1531-3298 Print ISSN: 1520-3972 © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 Journal of Cold War Studies (2009) 11 (1): 161–164. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.20…
Endspiel. Die Revolution von 1989 in der DDR
Love, Lust, and Lies under Communism
According to a joke that made the rounds in the former Soviet Union, women from different countries held on to their husbands in different ways: the German by her skills as a housewife, the Spaniard by her passionate lovemaking, the Frenchwoman by her refined elegance—and the Russian by the party committee. This sexist quip was a not so oblique reference to the ways in which the communist party intervened in the private domestic affairs of its me…
Kumpel, Kader und Genossen
As Europe’s largest producer of uranium during the Cold War, the East German Wismut mining company has garnered a great deal of scholarly attention since the fall of the Berlin Wall. To that extent, the publisher’s claim on the back cover that Juliane Schütterle’s dissertation is the ‘first detailed analysis’ of this top-secret enterprise is misleading. That said, it is the most in-depth investigation of the social history of that organisation. B…
Pertti Ahonen. Death at the Berlin Wall
The fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 predictably produced a spate of popular and scholarly studies about the infamous structure that quickly became the symbol of German division and the Cold War. Looking at the intersection between high politics and everyday life, the two monographs under review here are both interested in the “human dimensions” and “human costs” of the wall. Pertti Ahonen concentrates on…
Die DDR--eine deutsche Geschichte
German Festschriften provide an opportunity for the close colleagues and doctoral students of a German Ordinarius to pay homage to a venerable scholar toward the close of his or her career, and usually consist of essays related in some way to, or inspired by, that scholar’s own œuvre. The Festschrift under review here is dedicated to Werner Müller, a prolific professor of modern German history at the University of Rostock, a maritime city located…
History from Below, the History of Everyday Life, and Microhistory
Courting China, Condemning China
After the overthrow of Pol Pot and the genocidal Khmer Rouge in early 1979, a major international dispute erupted over who had the right to represent Cambodia in the international arena. Whereas the GDR immediately recognized the new regime installed by Vietnam (a close ally of the Soviet bloc and an arch-foe of China), West Germany gave staunch diplomatic support to the internationally reviled Khmer Rouge. This provoked a storm of public protest…
Central European History since 1989
In a luncheon address at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association in 2013, David Blackbourn delivered an impassioned plaidoyer to “grow” German history, i.e., to rescue it from the temporal “provincialism” that has, he believes, increasingly characterized the study of Germany over the past two decades. Blackbourn was critical of the growing emphasis on the twentieth century and especially the post-1945 period—not because of the qualit…
Rethinking Regime Stability
In the early 1950s, East German officials at the storied Maxhütte steel mill in Thuringia collected short CVs or “life stories” ( Lebensläufe ) written by approximately 370 blue- and white-collar workers who had recently become Stakhanovite “activists”. These documents, which all contain the same basic biographical information about the authors – from their socioeconomic background to their political activities – shed light on a group that has re…
Awkward Encounters’
In the spring of 1990, several months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, two incidents had a transformative effect on how I would later come to think about the soon-to-be-defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR). While walking together in downtown Halle, a friend from West Berlin commented almost absentmindedly that if it had not been for the Federal Republic—and by this she meant West German wealth and consumption levels—East Germans would likel…
Holocaust Scholarship and Politics in the Public Sphere
Last year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the so-called Historikerstreit (historians’ quarrel), as well as the twentieth anniversary of the lively debate sparked by the publication in 1996 of Daniel J. Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust . To mark the occasion, Central European History ( CEH ) has invited a group of seven specialists from Australia, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States to com…
In Memory of the “Two Helmuts”
Between them, the chancellorships of the “two Helmuts” span nearly a quarter-century of German history. Helmut Schmidt led the country from 1974 to 1982; his successor, Helmut Kohl, served until 1998. But the verdict on their respective tenures has been very different. Kohl was seen as a bumbling provincial when he came to office in 1982 but, by the end of his second term, he had won a place in the history books as the “Chancellor of Unity” ( Ein…
Andrew Demshuk. Demolition on Karl Marx Square
Andrew Demshuk’s Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism and the People’s State in 1968 is a spirited local study that looks at the destruction of a major historical landmark in communist East Germany and, more specifically, at public reactions to that controversial decision. In many respects, this is a new point of departure from Demshuk’s earlier work The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945–1970 (2012)…
Never Again
Norbert Frei, Im Namen der Deutschen. Die Bundespräsidenten und die NS-Vergangenheit. München, C. H. Beck 2023
History (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · European history and politics (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · German (11 works) · German History and Society (9 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (8 works)