UID:
almahu_9949702399302882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004433649
,
9780391040274
Series Statement:
Studies in Central European Histories ; 10
Content:
Revolution from the Right provides important new perspectives on the rise of National Socialism as it focuses on one of the most politically significant areas in the Weimar Republic: the central German state of Saxony. This highly industrialized state was the traditional stronghold of the left wing of Social Democracy, yet in the state elections of 1929 and 1930 it gave the National Socialists their first major electoral successes following a dramatic shift in its political life from the left to the far right. The National Socialists were able to gain support of middle-class voters attracted to militant anti-Marxism as well as from workers previously committed to the revolutionary left. Lapp investigates the dynamics of political radicalization in this densely populated, highly polarized, and politically volatile state from the German Revolution of 1918-19 to the Nazi seizure of power. He focuses on themes central to the history of Germany's failed democracy: the role of bourgeois "moral outrage" in response to the Socialist reforms of the early Weimar period, the failure of the bourgeois parties to maintain their support among an increasingly radicalized middle-class electorate, and the success of the NSDAP in appealing to large segments of the working-class electorate. Studies of National Socialism have hitherto focused on a largely rural and middle-class following; by examining a highly industrialized area with a largely working-class population, Revolution from the Right illuminates central aspects of the appeal of National Socialism to a diverse constituency and in doing so offers new insights into the appeal of National Socialism and the collapse of the Weimar Republic.
Note:
Preliminary Material -- List of Tables -- Map -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Revolution and the Saxon Bürgertum -- The Bourgeois Response to the Socialist Reforms of 1921-22 -- 1923, Class War, and the Intervention of the Reich -- A "National" Socialism? The Old Socialist Party of Saxony -- The Mobilization of the Bürgertum -- The Politics of Economic Despair -- National Socialism in Saxony: Revolution from the Right -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Revolution from the Right : Politics, Class and the Rise of Nazism in Saxony, 1919-1933, Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 1997 ISBN 9780391040274
Language:
English
