The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany
sought to win over the "masses" with promises of providing for
ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy-successful at
the outset-in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the
regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to
the right while it effectively excluded leftist alternatives from
the public sphere. This book argues that this policy can provide
the key to understanding of the collapse of the regimes. It
examines the case studies of two large factories, Carl Zeiss Jena
(East Germany) and Raba in Gyor (Hungary), and demonstrates how the
study of the formation of the relationship between the workers'
state and the industrial working class can offer illuminating
insights into the important issue of the legitimacy (and its
eventual loss) of Communist regimes.
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