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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Mai 2018
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
	20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.) / Deutschland / Europäische Geschichte / Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte / Revolutionen, Aufstände, Rebellionen
ISBN:	9781640140158
EAN-Code:	9781640140158
Verlag:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Serie:	German History in Context
Dimensionen:	H 163 mm / B 237 mm / D 49 mm
Gewicht:	1122 gr
Seiten:	610
Illustration:	24 b/w illus.
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Inhalt:

At the end of the First World War, German Jewish journalist, theater critic, and political activist Kurt Eisner (1867-1919), just released from prison, led a nonviolent revolution in Munich that deposed the monarchy and established the Bavarian Republic. Local head of the Independent Socialists, Eisner had been jailed for treason after organizing a munitions workers' strike to force an armistice. For a hundred days, as Germany spiraled into civil war, Eisner fought as head of state to preserve calm while implementing a peaceful transition to democracy and re-forging international relations. He rejected another central German government dominated by Prussia in favor of a confederation of autonomous equals, a "United States of Germany." A Francophile, he sought ties with Paris in hope of containing Prussia. In February 1919, on the way to submit his government's resignation to the newly elected constitutionalassembly, Eisner was shot by a protofascist aristocrat, plunging Bavaria into political chaos from which Adolf Hitler would emerge. At the centenary of the Bavarian Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, this is the first comprehensive biography of Eisner written for an English-language audience. Albert E. Gurganus is Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at The Citadel. He is the author of The Art of Revolution: Kurt Eisner's Agitprop (Camden House, 1986).