The Weimar Republic

Eberhard Kolb was Professor of History at the University of Cologne until his recent retirement. He has written widely on the inter-war period in Germany and co-edited two important volumes of hitherto unavailable source material on the German Revolution of 1918–19.

PART ONE Historical survey (A)Origin and consolidation of the Republic, 1918/19–1923 1 The revolution and the foundation of the Republic, 1918/19 2 The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles 3 The years of crisis, 1919–23 (B)The phase of relative stabilization, 1924–9 1 German foreign policy within the European system 2 Structural problems and domestic politics 3 The artistic avant-garde and mass culture in the ‘golden twenties’ (C)The disintegration and destruction of the Republic, 1930–3 1 The rise of National Socialism in the shadow of the world economic crisis 2 Disintegration of the political system: the period of presidential Cabinets PART TWO Basic problems and trends of research 1 The Weimar Republic as a subject of historical research 2 The revolutionary origins of the Republic 3 The Reich Constitution, the party system and the Reichswehr 4 Problems of economic and social development 5 From the peace treaty to the Young Plan: international relations and foreign policy, 1919–30 6 The last phase of the Republic