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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 received little systematic scholarly attention, namely, ostensibly loyal and  ordinary  East Germans at the grass roots. Their early support of the SED state and its economic goals ensured the longer-term stability of a largely unloved regime. These valuable documents thus provide important clues for understanding the puzzling political and economic viability of the German Democratic Republic.

Rethinking Regime Stability: The Life Stories of “Loyal” East German Activists in the Early German Democratic Republic