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Analyzes the role of the non-Nazi German Right in the destabilization and paralysis of Weimar democracy from 1918 to 1930.

List of contents

Introduction. Setting the context; 1. Revolution and realignment; 2. Infrastructure of the German right; 3. Forging a conservative synthesis; 4. Growth and consolidation; 5. The radical right; 6. 1923: a missed opportunity?; 7. From triumph to schism; 8. Stabilization from the right?; 9. Paladins of the right; 10. The forces of national revival; 11. The road back to power; 12. The burden of responsibility; 13. From defeat to crisis; 14. Reverberations and realignment; 15. The chimera of right-wing unity; 16. Schism and fragmentation; 17. The Brüning gambit; 18. The September earthquake; Conclusion. The price of disunity.

About the author

Larry Eugene Jones is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where he has taught since 1968. His previous publications include the award-winning German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918–1933 (1988) and Hitler versus Hindenburg: The 1932 Presidential Elections and the End of the Weimar Republic (2015).

Summary

This important contribution to the history of Weimar Germany examines the role that the non-Nazi Right played in the destabilization and paralysis of Weimar democracy, and why it failed to achieve the unity that was essential to hold in check the more radical challenge to Weimar democracy by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party.

Product details

• Authors: Larry Eugene Jones, Larry Eugene (Canisius College Jones, Jones Larry Eugene
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108494076
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49407-6
• No. of pages: 640
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, Nationalism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Fascism & Nazism, Far-right political ideologies and movements, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies