Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918–1938
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501713604 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Janek Wasserman is Assistant Professor of Modern German/Central European History at the University of Alabama.
Wasserman’s attention to this struggle offers significant new insight into the history of the First Austrian Republic."Paul A. He is not the first to propose this revisionbut Wasserman adds rich detail on how the camps' personalities, publications and organizations converged."Maureen Healy,Austrian Studies Newsmagazine(Spring 2015) "In the compelling and important Black Vienna, Janek Wasserman identifies the central actors, journals, and intellectual circles in the city's interwar 'culture war.’ Vienna was both the site and the target of an ideological struggle. Wasserman's book helps us to understand the polarization of politics in the First Austrian Republic by studying the intellectuals of the far Right, who were more radical than either of the main conservative parties and who found common ground between German nationalism and Catholicism and in their shared commitments to authoritarianism and anti-Semitism. This is a book about the
While Red Viennese intellectuals mounted an impressive challenge in cultural and intellectual forums throughout the city, radical conservatism carried the day. By focusing on the evolution of Austrian conservatism, Wasserman complicates post–World War II narratives about Austrian anti-fascism and Austrian victimhood.. Vienna was a microcosm of larger developments in Europethe rise of the radical right and the struggle between competing ideological visions. Looking at the complex interplay between intellectuals, the public, and the state, he argues that seemingly apolitical Viennese intellectuals, especially conservative ones, dramatically affected the course of Austrian history. Black Viennese intellectuals hastened the destruction of the First Republic, facilitating the establishment of the Austrofascist state and paving the way for Anschluss with Nazi Germany.Closely observing the works and actions of Viennese reformers, journalists, philosophers, and scientists, Wasserman traces intellectual, social, and political developments in the Austrian First Republic while highlighting intellectuals' participation in the growing worldwide conflict between socialism, conservatism, and fas