Description

Andrew G. Bonnell's innovative survey examines the history of revolution in modern Germany by focusing on key revolutionary developments in the German states. There is coverage of Germany and the French Revolution, the 1848 revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, the 1918-19 revolution, the Nazi 'revolution' of 1933, the revolution from above in Eastern Germany 1945-49, and the revolution in East Germany in 1989-90.

Revolutions in Modern German History sheds new light on the subject by stressing the continuity of conflicts between revolution and counter-revolution in German history, thereby restoring a sense of the dramatic social conflicts that punctuated the history of the country. It also reveals the significance of wider European and transnational developments of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements and events. Bonnell even reconstructs a sense of the participants' changing 'horizon of expectations' during these events by looking in-depth at the lives of men and women who lived and experienced these tumultuous times.

Table of Contents

List of Maps
Introduction
Part One: Tracing the History
1. The French Revolution and the German States
2. The 1848 Revolutions
3. Germany's Industrial Revolution
4. The End of the Empire and the Revolution of 1918-1919
5. The Nazi Takeover of Power, 1933: National Revolution or Counterrevolution?
6. 1945-1949: Revolution from above, and outside? The Foundation of the German Democratic Republic
7. Democratic Revolution against State Socialism and the End of the GDR, 1989-1990
Part Two: New Directions
8. Understanding Revolution: German Understandings of Revolution and Revolutions
9. Germany's Incomplete Revolution? Modernization and 'Special Paths'
10. The Federal Republic after 1949: Restoration or New Beginning?
11. Cultural Revolutions
12. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 29 May 2025
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781350072626
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series The Bloomsbury History of Modern Germany Series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Andrew G. Bonnell

Andrew G. Bonnell is Professor of History at the U…

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