Weimar Radicals

Author : Timothy Scott Brown
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1845455649

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Weimar Radicals by Timothy Scott Brown Pdf

Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between two defining ideologies of the twentieth century. The struggle between Fascism and Communism is situated within a broader conversation among right- and left-wing publicists, across the Youth Movement and in the "National Bolshevik" scene, thus revealing the existence of a discourse on revolutionary legitimacy fought according to a set of common assumptions about the qualities of the ideal revolutionary. Highlighting the importance of a masculine-militarist politics of youth revolt operative in both Marxist and anti-Marxist guises, Weimar Radicals forces us to re-think the fateful relationship between the two great ideological competitors of the Weimar Republic, while offering a challenging new interpretation of the distinctive radicalism of the interwar era.

Author : Nathan Stoltzfus
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300217506

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Hitler's Compromises by Nathan Stoltzfus Pdf

VII: "The People Know Where to Find the Leadership's Soft Spot": Air Raid Evacuations, Popular Protest, and Hitler's Soft Strategies -- VIII: Germany's Rosenstrasse and the Fate of Mixed Marriages -- Conclusion -- Afterword on Historical Research: Back to the "Top Down"? -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W

Author : David Bruder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1156867397

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Dirk Schumann, Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933: Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War; Timothy S. Brown, Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists Between Authenticity and Performance by David Bruder Pdf

Author : Pamela E. Swett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521834619

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Neighbors and Enemies by Pamela E. Swett Pdf

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Author : Gaard Kets,James Muldoon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030139179

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The German Revolution and Political Theory by Gaard Kets,James Muldoon Pdf

This book is the first collection within political theory to examine the ideas and debates of the German Revolution of 1918/19. It discusses the political theorists and actors of the revolution and uncovers an incredibly fertile body of political thought. Revolutionary events led to the proliferation of new political strategies, theoretical insights and institutional proposals. Key questions included the debate between a national assembly and a council system, the socialisation of the economy, the development of new forms of political representation and the proper role of parliaments, political parties and trade unions. This book offers novel perspectives on the history of the revolution, a thorough engagement with its main thinkers and an analysis of its relevance for contemporary political thought.

Author : Mikhail Suslov,Per-Arne Bodin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788317061

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The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia by Mikhail Suslov,Per-Arne Bodin Pdf

More than 700 'utopian' novels are published in Russia every year. These utopias – meaning here fantasy fiction, science fiction, space operas or alternative history – do not set out merely to titillate; instead they express very real Russian anxieties: be they territorial right-sizing, loss of imperial status or turning into a 'colony' of the West. Contributors to this innovative collection use these narratives to re-examine post-Soviet Russian political culture and identity. Interrogating the intersections of politics, ideologies and fantasies, chapters draw together the highbrow literary mainstream (authors such as Vladimir Sorokin), mass literature for entertainment and individuals who bridge the gap between fiction writers and intellectuals or ideologists (Aleksandr Prokhanov, for example, the editor-in-chief of Russia's far-right newspaper Zavtra). In the process The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia sheds crucial light onto a variety of debates – including the rise of nationalism, right-wing populism, imperial revanchism, the complicated presence of religion in the public sphere, the function of language – and is important reading for anyone interested in the heightened importance of ideas, myths, alternative histories and conspiracy theories in Russia today.

Author : David Meskill
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845458126

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Optimizing the German Workforce by David Meskill Pdf

During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country’s human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match as many workers as possible to skilled vocations and to establish a system of job training have received little scholarly attention, until now. The author’s account of the broad support for this program challenges the standard historical accounts that focus on disagreements over the German political-economic order and points instead to an important area of consensus. These advances are explained in terms of political policies of corporatist compromise and national security as well as industry’s evolving production strategies. By tracing the development of these policies over the course of a century, the author also suggests important continuities in Germany’s domestic politics, even across such different regimes as Imperial, Weimar, Nazi, and post-1945 West Germany.

Author : George Last
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459017

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After the 'Socialist Spring' by George Last Pdf

Historical analysis of the German Democratic Republic has tended to adopt a top-down model of the transmission of authority. However, developments were more complicated than the standard state/society dichotomy that has dominated the debate among GDR historians. Drawing on a broad range of archival material from state and SED party sources as well as Stasi files and individual farm records along with some oral history interviews, this book provides a thorough investigation of the transformation of the rural sector from a range of perspectives. Focusing on the region of Bezirk Erfurt, the author examines on the one hand how East Germans responded to the end of private farming by resisting, manipulating but also participating in the new system of rural organization. However, he also shows how the regime sought via its representatives to implement its aims with a combination of compromise and material incentive as well as administrative pressure and other more draconian measures. The reader thus gains valuable insight into the processes by which the SED regime attained stability in the 1970s and yet was increasingly vulnerable to growing popular dissatisfaction and economic stagnation and decline in the 1980s, leading to its eventual collapse.

Author : Catherine L. Dollard
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857453136

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The Surplus Woman by Catherine L. Dollard Pdf

The first German women's movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenberschu, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns and left too many bourgeois women without a husband. This book explores the ways in which the realms of literature, sexology, demography, socialism, and female activism addressed the perceived plight of unwed women. Case studies of reformers, including Lily Braun, Ruth Br, Elisabeth Gnauck-Khne, Helene Lange, Alice Salomon, Helene Stcker, and Clara Zetkin, demonstrate the expansive influence of the discourse surrounding a female surfeit. By combining the approaches of cultural, social, and gender history, The Surplus Woman provides the first sustained analysis of the ways in which imperial Germans conceptualized anxiety about female marital status as both a product and a reflection of changing times.

Author : Jeremy Leaman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459369

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The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder by Jeremy Leaman Pdf

While unification has undoubtedly had major effects on Germany's political economy, the pattern of current policy-making preferences was established at an earlier stage, in particular, at the beginning of the 'Kohl-era' in 1982. This essentially neo-liberal pattern can be seen to have dominated the modalities chosen to guide Germany through the process of unifi cation and was mirrored in developments in other OECD countries and in particular within the EU. This book demonstrates that the three policy imperatives (neo-liberal structural reform, European monetary integration, and unification) produced a policy-mix which, together with other structural economic and demographic factors, has had disappointing results in all three areas and hampered Germany's overall economic development.

Author : Brian M. Puaca
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 1845455681

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Learning Democracy by Brian M. Puaca Pdf

Scholarship on the history of West Germany's educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a stable democracy, a member of NATO, and a close ally of the West. Had the schools really failed to contribute to this remarkable transformation of German society and political culture? This study persuasively argues that long before the protest movements of the late 1960s, the West German educational system was undergoing meaningful reform from within. Although politicians and intellectual elites paid little attention to education after 1945, administrators, teachers, and pupils initiated significant changes in schools at the local level. The work of these actors resulted in an array of democratic reforms that signaled a departure from the authoritarian and nationalistic legacies of the past. The establishment of exchange programs between the United States and West Germany, the formation of student government organizations and student newspapers, the publication of revised history and civics textbooks, the expansion of teacher training programs, and the creation of a Social Studies curriculum all contributed to the advent of a new German educational system following World War II. The subtle, incremental reforms inaugurated during the first two postwar decades prepared a new generation of young Germans for their responsibilities as citizens of a democratic state.

Author : Mike Dennis,Norman LaPorte
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857451965

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State and Minorities in Communist East Germany by Mike Dennis,Norman LaPorte Pdf

Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, ‘guest’ workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich Honecker’s rule over the communist system. It explores how they were able to resist persecution and surveillance by instruments of the state, thus illustrating the limits on the power of the East German dictatorship and shedding light on the notion of authority as social practice.

Author : Alexander Clarkson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857459596

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Fragmented Fatherland by Alexander Clarkson Pdf

1945 to 1980 marks an extensive period of mass migration of students, refugees, ex-soldiers, and workers from an extraordinarily wide range of countries to West Germany. Turkish, Kurdish, and Italian groups have been studied extensively, and while this book uses these groups as points of comparison, it focuses on ethnic communities of varying social structures-from Spain, Iran, Ukraine, Greece, Croatia, and Algeria-and examines the interaction between immigrant networks and West German state institutions as well as the ways in which patterns of cooperation and conflict differ. This study demonstrates how the social consequences of mass immigration became intertwined with the ideological battles of Cold War Germany and how the political life and popular movements within these immigrant communities played a crucial role in shaping West German society.

Author : Gary D. Stark
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857453112

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Banned in Berlin by Gary D. Stark Pdf

Imperial Germany's governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that of its Western neighbors, but still not broad enough to prevent the literary community from challenging and subverting many of the social norms the state was most determined to defend. This study is the first systematic analysis in any language of state censorship of literature and theater in imperial Germany (1871-1918). To assess the role that formal state controls played in German literary and political life during this period, it examines the intent, function, contested legal basis, institutions, and everyday operations of literary censorship as well as its effectiveness and its impact on authors, publishers, and theater directors.

Author : Esther von Richthofen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1845454588

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Bringing Culture to the Masses by Esther von Richthofen Pdf

This text explores how cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, through attempts to dictate the way people spent their free time. It shows how people's cultural life in the GDR developed a dynamic of its own.