Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between two defining ideologies of the twentieth century. The struggle between Fascism and Communism is situated within a broader conversation among right- and left-wing publicists, across the Youth Movement and in the National Bolshevik scene, thus revealing the existence of a discourse on revolutionary legitimacy fought according to a set of common assumptions about the qualities of the ideal revolutionary. Highlighting the importance of a masculine-militarist politics of youth revolt operative in both Marxist and anti-Marxist guises, Weimar Radicals forces us to re-think the fateful relationship between the two great ideological competitors of the Weimar Republic, while offering a challenging new interpretation of the distinctive radicalism of the interwar era.

Timothy Scott Brown is Professor of History at Northeastern University and the author ofWest Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 19621978 (Cambridge 2013, 2015). He is the co-editor (with Andrew Lison) ofThe Global Sixties in Sound andVision:Media, Counterculture, Revolt (Palgrave 2014), and (with Lorena Anton) ofBetween the Avant-Garde and the Everyday:Subversive Politics in Europe from 1957 to the Present (Berghahn 2011).

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Chapter 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. BetweenGleichschaltung and revolution

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