"Brown's [innovative study] makes a vital contribution to an understanding of the Weimar Republic as a set of competing political stages, where radicalism was not the direct result of social or economic circumstances, but part and parcel of a deliberate dramatization of political speech." German History
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.
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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 Communism and Fascism a key problem of twentieth-century German history.
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List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1. The revolt of the masses: Populist radicalism and the discontents of modernity
Chapter 2. Faces of social militarism in the Weimar Republic
Chapter 3. National Socialism and its discontents
Chapter 4. German Communism and the Fascist challenge
Chapter 5. Between Gleichschaltung and revolution
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781785333361
Publisert
2016-08-19
Utgiver
Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
RES, UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
225
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