Living the German Revolution 1918-19 presents new research by international scholars on a neglected yet transformative event in German history. It analyses the lived experiences of diverse social constituencies during 1918/19, focusing on their expectations, experiences, and responses to the revolution and the prospect of a new democratic republic.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- 1: Christopher Dillon and Kim Wünschmann: Historicizing the German Revolution of 1918-19
- 2: Benjamin Ziemann: The Missing Comedy and the Problem of Emplotment: New Perspectives on the German Revolution of 1918-19
- Part I: Living at Revolutionary Flashpoints
- 3: Christopher Dillon: 'The revolutionary flame burns also in the provinces': The Bavarian Revolutions of 1918-19
- 4: Wiebke Wiede: An Experience of Extremes: The Revolution in Wilhelmshaven, 1917-19
- 5: Christina Ewald: 'As long as people are dancing, they are happy': Everyday Life and Leisure in Revolutionary Hamburg 1918-19
- Part II: Revolution as Lived Experience and Emancipation
- 6: Andrew Donson: Arbeitsunlust: No Desire to Work in the November Revolution
- 7: Daniel Siemens: Ambivalent Expectations in Times of Crisis: The Revolution of 1918-19 and the German Jews
- 8: Matthew Stibbe, Corinne Painter, and Ingrid Sharp: History beyond the Script: Rethinking Female Subjectivities and Socialist Women's Activism during the German Revolution of 1918-19 and its Immediate Aftermath
- Part III: Institutional Mediations of Revolution
- 9: Margarete Tiessen: 'Fateful enormity': The Berlin Publishing Firm S. Fischer and the German Revolution
- 10: Benedikt Brunner: An Unsettled Church: Experiences of Revolution and Planning for the Future in German Protestantism, 1918-20
- 11: Ulrike Ehret: 'Christian Government' vs. 'Jewish Revolution': Antisemitism and Catholic Responses to the 1918-19 Revolution in Munich
- Part IV: Revolutionary Violence in Perspective
- 12: Mark Jones: Sites of Memory, Sites of Mobilization? Political Funerals in November 1918
- 13: Anita Klingler: Attitudes to Political Violence in Early Inter-War Britain and Germany: Maintaining Law and Order in Glasgow and Munich, 1919
- 14: Thomas Blanck: Revolutionary Violence in Munich and Fiume, 1918-20
- Index
