The German left and the Weimar Republic : a selection of documents / translated and introduced by Ben Fowkes.
"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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2014]
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| Series: | Historical materialism book series ;
75. |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 399 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004271081 9004271082 1306976693 9781306976695 |
| ISSN: | 1570-1522 ; |