When workers rumbled
The Wismut upheaval of August 1951 in East Germany∗
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11934846 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew I Port (Harvard University Press, corresponding author), Andrew Port |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 145-173 |
| Publication date | 1997-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-1022 • E-ISSN: 1470-1200 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03071029708567997 |
| OpenAlex | W2005683165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 21 |
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 officials climbed out windows, onto rooftops and down trees in order to avoid the swinging picks of rampaging miners who refused to return to the pits until their Kumpels, or mates, were set free. According to police estimates, some three thousand miners and civilians were involved in this incident. An unfamiliar chapter in the history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the upheaval and its aftermath shed light on some of the more serious tensions underlying East German society during its formative years as well as on the ways in which socialist authorities dealt with protest and open conflict. Because of previous archival constraints, we know very little about large-scale demonstrations in the GDR apart from the uprising of I7 June I953, when hundreds of thousands of East Germans took to the streets in order to protest forcibly against the policies of the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) in the first state-wide insurrection
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2018 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |