Albert Earle Gurganus

Kurt Eisner (eBook, PDF)

A Modern Life

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Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive biography in English of the leader of the Bavarian Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, the first Jewish head of a European state and a man who embraced and embodied modernity.



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 reforging 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 Earle 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).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 610
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787442313
• Artikelnr.: 56248695

Autorenporträt

Albert Earle Gurganus

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction A Novel's Suffering Hero: A Youth in Berlin (1867-1889)
Aristocratize the Masses: From Berlin to Frankfurt to Marburg (1890-1893)
Refuge of All Idealists: Through Cohen to Kant toward Marx (1893-1896)
Dictatorial Megalomania: Lèse Majesté and Plötzensee Prison (1896-1898)
Making the Leap: Back to Berlin as a Social Democrat (1898-1900) No Idle
Dreamer: At the Helm of Vorwärts (1900-1902) My Life's Purpose: Molding the
Readership (1902-1903) Never . . . a Less Fruitful Scholastic Debate:
Intramural Strife - Evolution vs. Revolution (1903-1905) Revolutionizing
Minds: The Scorched Middle Ground (1905) The Complete Parity of My
Experiences: From Exile to Nuremberg (1905-1907) The Most Genuine and
Fruitful Radicalism: Taking the Lead at the Fränkische Tagespost
(1907-1908) So Suspect a Heretic as Surely I Am: New Bearings in North
Bavaria (1908) Dear Little Whore: Personal and Professional Turmoil (1909)
To Find a Lost Life: From Nuremberg to Munich (1909-1910) Something of a
Party Offiziosus in Bavaria: Political Editor at the Münchener Post
(1910-1911) At Peace with Myself: Resettling into Family Life (1912-1913)
The Powerlessness of Reason: The World War Erupts (1914) Wretched
Superfluity: Divided Loyalties (1915-1916) War for War's Sake: Political
Alienation and Realignment (1916-1917) The Most Beautiful Days of My Life:
Leading the Opposition (1917-1918) Our Power to Act Now Grows: From
Prisoner to Premier (1918) The Terror of Truth: Forging the Republic,
Combatting Reaction (1918) The Fantasies of a Visionary: Martyr of the
Revolution (1918-1919) Now Dead, as It Stands: Outcomes and Legacy
(1919-2017) Abbreviations Notes Sources and References Index