Gary Bruce

Publications

Books

• Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo (NY: Oxford University Press, 2017).
• The Firm: The inside story of the Stasi (NY: Oxford University Press, 2010).
• Resistance with the people: Repression and resistance in Eastern Germany 1945-1955 in the Harvard Cold War Project Book Series (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).

Chapters and Articles

• “Resistance and Daily Life in East Germany: District Gransee as ‘Place,’ German History 40, 2 (June 2022): 239-257
• “From Perpetrator to Cold War Pawn: The Atrocities and Trial of Heinz Barth” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 29, 3 (Winter 2015): 374-399.
• “Participatory Repression? Reflections on Popular Involvement with the Stasi” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. Supplement 9 (2014): 47-58
• "A Protestant revolution? The role of the church in East Germany in 1989 at the grassroots" Sfera Politicii 142 (December 2009): 17-23.
• "East Germany," The Historical Journal 52, 3 (2009): 857-870.
• “East Germany” in Lavinia Stan, ed. Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (London: Routledge, 2009), 15-36 (Reprint of my German Politics and Society article above).
• Commentary on "The role and activities of the SED, the East German State and its military during the 'Prague Spring' of 1968," in Mark Stolarik, ed., The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia(Mundelein: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2010), 165-171.

Awards

• Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Waterloo, 2007