German Socialism And Weimar Democracy

Author : Richard Breitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004984012

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German Socialism and Weimar Democracy by Richard Breitman Pdf

In this first analysis in English of the relationship of the German Social Democratic party to the Weimar Republic, Breitman stresses the party's conflicting loyalties to both Marxist traditions and democratic principles. He explains how and why an evolutionary socialist strategy failed to promote or to prevent the rise of Nazism. The non socialist parties showed no interest in meeting the SPD halfway, and there was internal dissent over coalition with other parties. Originally published in 1981. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Richard Breitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783737661

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German Socialism and Weimar Democracy by Richard Breitman Pdf

Author : David E. Barclay,Eric D. Weitz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0857457195

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Between Reform and Revolution by David E. Barclay,Eric D. Weitz Pdf

The powerful impact of Socialism and Communism on modern German history is the theme which is explored by the contributors to this volume. Whereas previous investigations have tended to focus on political, intellectual and biographical aspects, this book captures, for the first time, the methodological and thematic diversity and richness of current work on the history of the German working class and the political movements that emerged from it. Based on original contributions from U.S., British, and German scholars, this collection address a wide range of themes and problems.

Author : Hans Mommsen
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807876077

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The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy by Hans Mommsen Pdf

In this definitive analysis of the Weimar Republic, Hans Mommsen surveys the political, social, and economic development of Germany between the end of World War I and the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933. His assessment of the German experiment with democracy challenges many long-held assumptions about the course and character of German history. Mommsen argues persuasively that the rise of totalitarianism in Germany was not inevitable but was the result of a confluence of specific domestic and international forces. As long as France and Britain exerted pressure on the new Germany after World War I, the radical Right hesitated to overthrow the constitution. But as international scrutiny decreased with the recognition of the legitimacy of the Weimar regime, totalitarian elements were able to gain the upper hand. At the same time, the world economic crisis of the early 1930s, with its social and political ramifications, further destabilized German democracy. This translation of the original German edition (published in 1989) brings the work to an English-speaking audience for the first time. European History

Author : Conan Fischer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1571819150

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The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar Germany by Conan Fischer Pdf

Before seizing power the Nazi movement assembled an exceptionally broad social coalition of activists and supporters. Many were working class, but there remains considerable disagreement over the precise size and structure of this constituency and still more over its ideology and politics. An indispensable work for scholars of interwar Germany and Nazism in general.

Author : Ben Fowkes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004271081

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The German Left and the Weimar Republic by Ben Fowkes Pdf

The German Left and the Weimar Republic illuminates the history of the political left by presenting a wide range of documents on various aspects of socialist and communist activity in Germany. Separate chapters deal with the policy of Social Democracy in and out of government, the attempts of the Communist Party to overthrow the Weimar Republic, and then later to oppose it. Later chapters move away from the political scene to treat the attitudes of the parties to key social issues, in particular questions of gender and sexuality. The book concludes with a presentation of documents on various groups of socialist and communist dissidents. Many of the documents are made accessible for the first time, and each chapter begins with an original introduction indicating the current state of research.

Author : Anton Kaes,Martin Jay,Edward Dimendberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0520909607

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The Weimar Republic Sourcebook by Anton Kaes,Martin Jay,Edward Dimendberg Pdf

A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth century. Its political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook represents the most comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any language. It invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in Germany before Hitler's rise to power. Drawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestoes, and official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never before available in English), this book challenges the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, and social life. Its thirty chapters explore Germany's complex relationship to democracy, ideologies of "reactionary modernism," the rise of the "New Woman," Bauhaus architecture, the impact of mass media, the literary life, the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation of Jews, intellectuals, and workers before and during the emergence of fascism. While devoting much attention to the Republic's varied artistic and intellectual achievements (the Frankfurt School, political theater, twelve-tone music, cultural criticism, photomontage, and urban planning), the book is unique for its inclusion of many lesser-known materials on popular culture, consumerism, body culture, drugs, criminality, and sexuality; it also contains a timetable of major political events, an extensive bibliography, and capsule biographies. This will be a major resource and reference work for students and scholars in history; art; architecture; literature; social and political thought; and cultural, film, German, and women's studies.

Author : Richard Bessel,E. J. Feuchtwanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015020711035

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Social Change and Political Development in Weimar Germany by Richard Bessel,E. J. Feuchtwanger Pdf

Author : Stefan Berger
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025165270

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Social Democracy and the Working Class in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany by Stefan Berger Pdf

This is a survey of German social democracy. It covers the movement's full span from its origins after the French Revolution to the present day and in setting the German experience firmly within its wider European context.

Author : Michael N. Dobkowski,Isidor Wallimann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Germany
ISBN : UCAL:B4953164

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Radical Perspectives on the Rise of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1945 by Michael N. Dobkowski,Isidor Wallimann Pdf

Author : Michael Laffan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000357202

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The Burden of German History 1919-45 by Michael Laffan Pdf

Originally published in 1988, The Burden of German History 1919-45 examines the vast literature surrounding Weimar years and the National Socialist tragedy, daunting even for the specialist historian or political scientist. The essays included in this volume provide an invaluable guide to research of the time and provides a stimulating review of a wide range of topics in modern German cultural, political, economic and military history. The essays are based on a series of lectures given by German and Irish scholars to a conference on the theme ‘Weimar Germany and National Socialism’, which was held in March 1986 in University College, Dublin, under the auspices of the Goethe Institute, Dublin. This book offers a significant commentary on a period of German history which included the exciting and ambivalent freedom of the Weimar society and the repressive, murderous uniformity of National Socialism.

Author : W. L. Guttsman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000007794

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The German Social Democratic Party, 1875-1933 by W. L. Guttsman Pdf

Originally published in 1981, this book covers the development of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from its inception to the end of the Weimar republic. Within a historical framework it analyses the role and operation of the SPD in the changing social and political climate of Germany and describes the party’s internal struggles throughout the period. The party continually debated its aims and the means to achieve them. Conducted by people such as Kautsky, Bernsteina dn Rosa Luxemburg, with close links to Marx, Engels and other leaders of the international socialist movement, this debate within the party was one of the most fundamental socialist controversies, whose relevance remains today.

Author : István Deák
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Weimar Germany's Left-Wing Intellectuals by István Deák Pdf

Author : Moritz Föllmer,Pamela E. Swett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108833547

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Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany by Moritz Föllmer,Pamela E. Swett Pdf

Presents fresh approaches to the history of capitalism in the context of Weimar and Nazi Germany.

Author : Benjamin Lapp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004433649

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Revolution from the Right by Benjamin Lapp Pdf

Revolution from the Right provides important new perspectives on the rise of National Socialism as it focuses on one of the most politically significant areas in the Weimar Republic: the central German state of Saxony. This highly industrialized state was the traditional stronghold of the left wing of Social Democracy, yet in the state elections of 1929 and 1930 it gave the National Socialists their first major electoral successes following a dramatic shift in its political life from the left to the far right. The National Socialists were able to gain support of middle-class voters attracted to militant anti-Marxism as well as from workers previously committed to the revolutionary left. Lapp investigates the dynamics of political radicalization in this densely populated, highly polarized, and politically volatile state from the German Revolution of 1918-19 to the Nazi seizure of power. He focuses on themes central to the history of Germany’s failed democracy: the role of bourgeois “moral outrage” in response to the Socialist reforms of the early Weimar period, the failure of the bourgeois parties to maintain their support among an increasingly radicalized middle-class electorate, and the success of the NSDAP in appealing to large segments of the working-class electorate. Studies of National Socialism have hitherto focused on a largely rural and middle-class following; by examining a highly industrialized area with a largely working-class population, Revolution from the Right illuminates central aspects of the appeal of National Socialism to a diverse constituency and in doing so offers new insights into the appeal of National Socialism and the collapse of the Weimar Republic.