Eve Rosenhaft

Beating the Fascists?

The German Communists and Political Violence 1929 1933

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book Eve Rosenhaft examines the involvement of Communists in political violence during the years of Hitler's rise to power in Germany (1929-33). Specifically, she aims to account for their participation in `street-fighting' or 'gang-fighting' with National Socialist storm-troopers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780521089388
• ISBN-10: 0521089387
• Artikelnr.: 25044568

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Social crisis, radical politics and organized violence in Weimar Germany
2. The Party, the neighbourhood and the uses of violence in the `Third Period'
3. Defining the enemy: The wehrhafter Kampf against the SA in theory and propaganda
4. Organizing the wehrhafter Kampf: The Communist defence formations
5. Between 'individual terror' and 'mass terror': The campaign against the SA-taverns, 1931
6. The shape of violence in the neighbourhoods
7. Who were the streetfighters?
8. Conclusion: Communist politics in the Weimar Republic.