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Article: The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933, by Ruth Henig. New York, Routledge, 1998. xix, 87 pp. $11.99 U.S., $17.99 Can.
It is undoubtedly a specialist's conceit to argue that the Weimar Republic is one of the periods in German history whose interpretation requires an extraordinary degree of theoretical reflection. However, this conceit does contain a large degree of truth. On the one hand, it has been argued in an increasingly sophisticated and compelling manner in recent years that the republic faced its many different and intense crises during its brief existence because both the economic contradictions of capitalism and the socio-cultural contradictions of classical ...