The Weimar Republic

Description
It is often assumed that the Weimar Republic was bound to fail due to the harsh terms of the Versailles Settlement. Professor Hiden dispels this simplistic view and shows that it was a complex set of factors which finally brought Hitler to power. This clear and balanced study is now fully revised - for the first time since its publication in 1974 - to take account of the latest research.

Contents
PART ONE BACKGROUND.
1. Constitution: After Revolution.
2. Versailles, Truth and Fiction.
PART TWO
3. Coalitions and Party Politics.
4. Foreign Policy.
5. Economics and Reparations.
6. Leftist Opposition.
7. Rightist Opposition.
8. Reichswehr and Politics.
PART THREE CONCLUSION
9. The Crisis and Hitler.
Part Four Documents.
Bibliography.
Index.

Features
* revised for the first time since publication in 1974. This very popular text has been completely rewritten to take account of the latest historiography

* contains a thorough examination of the final years of crisis 1929 - 1933

* expanded and up-dated bibliography reflects the huge amount of work which has been done on the period since the book first appeared

* high profile author - he has also written Republican and Fascist Germany and Themes and Variations in the History of Weimar and the Third Reich 1918 - 1945, and Germany and Europe 1919 -1939, both published by Longman

Reviews

"succeeds in retaining all the strengths of the original whilst taking account of the enormous increase in scholarship on the period"

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