What is it about?
This paper compares grievance- and mobilization-based explanations of mass opposition to authoritarian governments. It uses an original dataset from socialist East Germany to test these theories.
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Why is it important?
This paper explores a unique dataset on an uprising in a very repressive, authoritarian context. These data were collected from the archives of socialist East Germany.
Perspectives
This paper will be of interest to a wide range of political scientists, historians and sociologists interested in authoritarian politics, mobilization and revolution, and the history of East Central Europe.
Henry Thomson
Arizona State University
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This page is a summary of: Grievances, Mobilization, and Mass Opposition to Authoritarian Regimes: A Subnational Analysis of East Germany’s 1953 Abbreviated Revolution, Comparative Political Studies, March 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0010414018758757.
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