Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists Between Authenticity and Performance Contributor(s): Brown, Timothy Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 1785333364 ISBN-13: 9781785333361 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Germany - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism |
Dewey: 324.243 |
LCCN: 2008053760 |
Series: Monographs in German History |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 225 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 1930's |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brown, Timothy Scott: - Timothy Scott Brown is Professor of History at Northeastern University and the author of West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962-1978 (Cambridge 2013, 2015). He is the co-editor (with Andrew Lison) of The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt (Palgrave 2014), and (with Lorena Anton) of Between the Avant-Garde and the Everyday: Subversive Politics in Europe from 1957 to the Present (Berghahn 2011). |