| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Dirk Schumann. Politische Gewalt in der Weimarer Republik 1918–1933: Kampf um die Straße und Furcht vor dem Bürgerkrieg. (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Soziale Bewegungen, Schriftenreihe A: Darstellungen, number 17.) Essen: Klartext. 2001. Pp. 400. DM 88.00.

The Weimar Republic was scarred by an unusually high degree of social, economic, and political turbulence and instability, especially in the early 1920s and the Depression-hit 1930s, which quickly brought about its demise. A central, influential feature of that unhappy period was the politically motivated violence that found its clearest expression in street fighting and other forms of public disorder between extremists of the Right and Left. A genuine fear of civil war prevailed in many sectors, notably among the middle classes, and particularly as the militant, totalitarian movements of National Socialism and Communism with their tough, paramilitary ancillary organizations attracted increasing popular support. Both movements emphasized the importance of dominating the streets as an integral part of their broader campaigns to secure power. . . .

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