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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494742403321

Autore

Brown Timothy Scott

Titolo

Weimar radicals [[electronic resource] ] : Nazis and communists between authenticity and performance / / Timothy S. Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-62767-8

9786612627675

1-84545-908-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Monographs in German history ; ; v. 28

Disciplina

324.243023809042

Soggetti

Radicalism - Germany - History - 20th century

National socialism - History - 20th century

Communism - Germany - History - 20th century

Authenticity (Philosophy)

Group identity

Militarism - Germany - History - 20th century

Youth movements - Germany - History - 20th century

Working class - Political activity - Germany - History - 20th century

Masculinity - Political aspects - Germany - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Germany Politics and government 1918-1933

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The revolt of the masses : populist radicalism and the discontents of modernity -- Faces of social militarism in the Weimar Republic -- National socialism and its discontents -- German communism and the fascist challenge -- Between Gleichschaltung and revolution.

Sommario/riassunto

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. The struggle between Nazism 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 qual