Weimar Radicals

Timothy Scott Brown is Professor of History at Northeastern University and the author of West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962-1978 (Cambridge 2013, 2015). He is the co-editor (with Andrew Lison) of The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt (Palgrave 2014), and (with Lorena Anton) of Between the Avant-Garde and the Everyday: Subversive Politics in Europe from 1957 to the Present (Berghahn 2011).

• List of illustrationsList of abbreviationsChapter 1. The revolt of the masses: Populist radicalism and the discontents of modernityChapter 2. Faces of social militarism in the Weimar RepublicChapter 3. National Socialism and its discontentsChapter 4. German Communism and the Fascist challengeChapter 5. Between Gleichschaltung and revolutionConclusionBibliographyIndex

"Brown's [innovative study] makes a vital contribution to an understanding of the Weimar Republic as a set of competing political stages, where radicalism was not the direct result of social or economic circumstances, but part and parcel of a deliberate dramatization of political speech." German History