Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists Between Authenticity and Performance
T.S. Brown, "Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists Between Authenticity and Performance"
2009 | ISBN-10: 1845455649 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
2009 | ISBN-10: 1845455649 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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 BolshevikA" 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.