Ben Fowkes

The German Left and the Weimar Republic

A Selection of Documents

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of documents on Weimar Germany presents the governmental politics of the Social Democrats and the revolutionary politics of the Communists, as well as the attitude of the left to a number of key social issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9789004210295
• ISBN-10: 9004210296
• Artikelnr.: 41972301

Autorenporträt

Ben Fowkes taught history at the universities of Sheffield and North London. He carried out archival research in Vienna, Bonn, Prague and Moscow, and wrote a number of books, including Communism in Germany under the Weimar Republic. He also did a number of translations, such as Karl Marx: The Economic Manuscript of 1863-1865 (Capital, Book Three) and Henryk Grossman: Selected Works (edited by Professor Rick Kuhn). Both to be published by Brill.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
General Introduction
Chapter 1 Social Democracy in Government: Measures of Reform in Theory and
Practice
Chapter 2 The Council Idea: Workers' Councils and Factory Councils
Chapter 3 Communism and Insurrection
Chapter 4 In Defence of Democracy
Chapter 5 The Weimar Left Between Opposition and Coalition: Varied
Strategies
Chapter 6 The Moscow Connection: The KPD and the Comintern
Chapter 7 Socialism and Foreign Policy
Chapter 8 The Search for Democracy in the Armed Forces
Chapter 9 Questions of Gender and Sexual Politics
Chapter 10 Long-term Political Objectives: Similarities and Differences
Chapter 11 The Parties, their Supporters and the Proletarian Milieu
Chapter 12 Parties and Groups of the Dissident Left
Bibliography
Index