Weimar Radicals

Zusatztext

<p> 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.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Timothy Scott Brown</strong> is Professor of History at Northeastern University and the author of<em>West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 19621978</em> (Cambridge 2013, 2015). He is the co-editor (with Andrew Lison) of<em>The Global Sixties in Sound andVision:Media, Counterculture, Revolt</em> (Palgrave 2014), and (with Lorena Anton) of<a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BrownBetween"><em>Between the Avant-Garde and the Everyday:Subversive Politics in Europe from 1957 to the Present</em></a> (Berghahn 2011).</p>

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