Revolution from the right : : politics, class, and the rise of Nazism in Saxony, 1919-1933 / / Benjamin Lapp.

• Superior document: Studies in Central European Histories ; 10
• VerfasserIn: Lapp, Benjamin, 1958-
• Place / Publishing House: Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey : : Humanities Press,, [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Central European Histories ; 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Revolution from the Right provides important new perspectives on the rise of National Socialism as it focuses on one of the most politically significant areas in the Weimar Republic: the central German state of Saxony. This highly industrialized state was the traditional stronghold of the left wing of Social Democracy, yet in the state elections of 1929 and 1930 it gave the National Socialists their first major electoral successes following a dramatic shift in its political life from the left to the far right. The National Socialists were able to gain support of middle-class voters attracted to militant anti-Marxism as well as from workers previously committed to the revolutionary left. Lapp investigates the dynamics of political radicalization in this densely populated, highly polarized, and politically volatile state from the German Revolution of 1918-19 to the Nazi seizure of power. He focuses on themes central to the history of Germanys failed democracy: the role of bourgeois moral outrage in response to the Socialist reforms of the early Weimar period, the failure of the bourgeois parties to maintain their support among an increasingly radicalized middle-class electorate, and the success of the NSDAP in appealing to large segments of the working-class electorate. Studies of National Socialism have hitherto focused on a largely rural and middle-class following; by examining a highly industrialized area with a largely working-class population, Revolution from the Right illuminates central aspects of the appeal of National Socialism to a diverse constituency and in doing so offers new insights into the appeal of National Socialism and the collapse of the Weimar Republic.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- List of Tables -- Map -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Revolution and the Saxon Brgertum -- The Bourgeois Response to the Socialist Reforms of 1921-22 -- 1923, Class War, and the Intervention of the Reich -- A National Socialism? The Old Socialist Party of Saxony -- The Mobilization of the Brgertum -- The Politics of Economic Despair -- National Socialism in Saxony: Revolution from the Right -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.