| List of Illustrations | |
| List of Tables | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | Regimes of Repression, Repertoires of Resistance | 18 |
| Ch. 2 | War and Revolution and the Genesis of German Communism | 62 |
| Ch. 3 | Reconstructing Order: State and Managerial Strategies in the Weimar Republic | 100 |
| Ch. 4 | Contesting Order: Communists in the Workplace | 132 |
| Ch. 5 | Contesting Order: Communists in the Streets | 160 |
| Ch. 6 | The Gendering of German Communism | 188 |
| Ch. 6 | Forging a Party Culture | 233 |
| Ch. 8 | The Anni terribili: Communists under Two Dictatorships | 280 |
| Ch. 9 | The Weimar Legacy and the Road to the DDR 1945-49 | 311 |
| Ch. 10 | The Primacy of Politics: State and Society in the DDR | 357 |
| Conclusion: The End of a Tradition | 387 |
| Bibliography | 395 |
| Index | 431 |
