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The Weimar Republic (Questions and Analysis in History)
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Integrating historical narrative, questions, analysis and evaluation of primary sources, this book provides students with a clear background to Germany in the aftermath of the First World War, and also includes a guide to exam success.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #181717 in Books
- Published on: 1998-04-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 136 pages
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From the Back Cover
The Weimar Republic examines Germany in the aftermath of the First World War, exploring such themes as the formation of the Republic, the impact of the Treaty of Versailles Hitlers rise to power. Integrating historical detail, questions, analysis and evaluation of primary sources, this book provides students with a clear background and a guide to examination success.
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Was the Weimar Republic Doomed To Failure?
There were prolonged controversies whether the Weimar Republic was doomed to failure from its very beginning. In this book, Professor Stephen Lee demostrates that democratic experience in Weimar Germany was doomed to failure. From the beginning, Weimar political system had lost its legitimacy and it ceased to function when faced by a deep-seated crisis of economic, social and cultural modernization. He argues that the Germans, whose society had undergone a very rapid transformation in the half-century before the First World War, faced the difficult years of the 1920s in a state of social and cultural flux, with old hierarchies and values under threat and any democratic institution had not yet properly established before. He added that the social tensions which came to a head after 1929 could not be resolved by democratic methods. The only choice left was totalitarianism. The case against the Wilhelmine elite who controlled Germany in the early 1930s is not that they wanted National Socialism, but that they ensured its triumph by casting off, like a worn-out garment, the democratic institutions of the Weimar Republic. The book is an excellent and critical account and is worth reading.
