Title: The collapse of the Weimar Republic
Description: Analysing the conflicts within and between organised industrial and agricultural forces in Germany as well as those between capital and labour, the author shows how these conflicts made it impossible for a coherent political force to emerge to hold the democratic republic together and how, after a period of costly cooperation with labour, and faced with unacceptable alternatives, Germany's elites found unity in a dictatorship that removed the working class from politics and obliged the dominant classes to abdicate all but their economic interests.
Subjects: Agriculture and state, History, Industrial policy, Politics and government, Pressure groups, Social conflict, New York Times reviewed, Germany, history, 20th century
Places: Germany
Time periods: 1918-1933