William Smaldone

Broschiertes Buch

Confronting Hitler

German Social Democrats in Defense of the Weimar Republic, 1929-1933

Beschreibung

The stories of the individual men and women who led German Social Democracy's failed efforts to fend off the Nazi onslaught in 1933 have largely been lost in the wake of the cataclysmic war, the Holocaust, and the division of Europe that followed Hitler's victory. Confronting Hitler recovers their stories and places them at center stage. In a series of biographical essays focusing on the experiences of ten leading Social Democratic activists, Smaldone examines their defeat in 1933 from the perspective of individuals enmeshed in political struggle. This study reveals what aspects of these activists' lives were most important in shaping their political outlook during the republic's final crisis and it illustrates the key factors that guided their actions in the effort to keep the republic alive. In addition, the biographies raise the important issue of the degree to which the defeat of German Social Democracy in 1933 is comparable to the experiences of other democratic socialist movements in the twentieth century.

Autor

William Smaldone is Professor of History at Willamette University. Professor Smaldone's research focuses on twentieth century German and European labor history. His Rudolf Hilferding: The Tragedy of a German Social Democrat (1998) examines the life of one of German Social Democracy's leading economic and political thinkers from the turn of the century until the collapse of the Weimar Republic in 1933. His second book, Confronting Hitler: German Social Democrats in Defense of the Weimar Republic, 1929-1933 (2009), treats the failure of Germany's Social Democratic leadership in its struggle against Adolf Hitler's National Socialist movement. In 2013 he published European Socialism: A Concise History. More recently, with Mark Blum of the University of Kentucky, Louisville, he has published Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity, a two-volume collection of documents on one of twentieth century European socialism's most important intellectual currents. He is now translating and editing Rudolf Hilferding's correspondence with Karl Kautsky, Leon Trotsky, and Paul Hertz. William Smaldone teaches the following courses: HIST 116 - Western Civilization Since 1650 HIST 131 - The Rise of Capitalism HIST 131 - The Holocaust HIST 254 - Twentieth Century Europe HIST 255 - Cities and the Making of Modern Europe HIST 258 - Modern Latin America HIST 306 - History Through Biography HIST 343 - The Bolshevik Revolution HIST 372 - Modern Russia HIST 390 - Germany From Bismarck to Hitler HIST 391 - Germany since 1945 HIST 440 - History of European Socialism

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780739128442
• ISBN-10: 0739128442
• Artikelnr.: 28522690