Date: 2016
Type: Book
Founding Weimar : violence and the German revolution of 1918–1919
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016
JONES, Mark William, Founding Weimar : violence and the German revolution of 1918–1919, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/44064
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
The German Revolution of 1918–1919 was a transformative moment in modern European history. It was both the end of the German Empire and the First World War, as well as the birth of the Weimar Republic, the short-lived democracy that preceded the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship. A time of great political drama, the Revolution saw unprecedented levels of mass mobilisation and political violence, including the 'Spartacist Uprising' of January 1919, the murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, and the violent suppression of strikes and the Munich Councils' Republic. Drawing upon the historiography of the French Revolution, Founding Weimar is the first study to place crowds and the politics of the streets at the heart of the Revolution's history. Carefully argued and meticulously researched, it will appeal to anyone with an interest in the relationship between violence, revolution, and state formation, as well as in the history of modern Germany.
Table of Contents:
-- List of illustrations
-- List of maps
-- Acknowledgements
-- Abbreviations
-- Introduction
-- 1. La grande peur of November 1918
-- 2. Karl Liebknecht and the Spartacist threat
-- 3. Terror and order
-- 4. The edge of the abyss
-- 5. The January uprising
-- 6. Atrocities and remobilisation
-- 7. Weimar's order to execute
-- 8. Death in Munich
-- Conclusion
-- Bibliography
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/44064
ISBN: 9781107115125
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/19428
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2011
