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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1. The revolt of the masses: Populist radicalism and the discontents of modernity
Chapter 2. Faces of social militarism in the Weimar Republic
Chapter 3. National Socialism and its discontents
Chapter 4. German Communism and the Fascist challenge
Chapter 5. Between Gleichschaltung and revolution
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
