Name: Weimar Germany: The Death of a Democracy
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Author: Victor Sebestyen
ISBN: 9780593701287

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Weimar Germany: The Death of a Democracy

Type

Physical Book

Author

Victor Sebestyen

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Year

2026

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.622 x 15.494 x 3.048 cm

ISBN13

9780593701287

Weimar Germany: The Death of a Democracy

Victor Sebestyen (Author) · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Weimar Germany: The Death of a Democracy"

From a master historian and the critically acclaimed author of Lenin, comes a dramatic and gripping account of the political and cultural upheavals that lead to the death of democracy in Weimar era Germany—a story ripped out of today’s headlines.

In this masterful work of history, Victor Sebestyen chronicles the rise of the first German Republic from the ashes of the First World War. He captures the momentous fall of the Kaiser and the rise of a democracy that took its place in 1918. But at the very outset, a fatal deal was struck that let Hindenburg and the army off the hook for the economic fallout of the war and allowed the German people to embrace the myth that Germany had not lost.

At the same time, Weimar was a breathless period of cultural innovation in music, science, painting, literature, film, and architecture. It was the era of Bauhaus, Dada, and a remarkable openness in queer life and political thought.

But dark clouds were looming. The Weimar Republic was marked by a struggling economy, continuous political upheaval, extremism on both ends of the political spectrum, and public assassinations. Warring factions of left and right fought for control of the streets, and democracy was caught in the middle and eventually crushed.

A lucid and compelling portrait of a country slowly descending into tyranny, Weimar Germany is a magnificent, timely history of a frighteningly relevant period in the history of democracy.

Victor Sebestyen

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Victor Sebestyen (Budapest, 1956) es un destacado periodista, historiador y autor. Nacido en Hungría, su familia huyó al Reino Unido cuando él era niño. A lo largo de su carrera, ha cubierto importantes acontecimientos internacionales como corresponsal para destacados medios británicos.Es mundialmente reconocido por sus exhaustivas investigaciones sobre la historia de Europa del Este y la Unión Soviética. Entre sus obras más aclamadas destacan Twelve Days (2006), sobre la revolución húngara; Revolution 1989 (2009), que relata la caída del comunismo; y La Revolución rusa. Su aclamada biografía Lenin. Una biografía (2017) destaca por revelar el lado humano y las complejidades personales del líder soviético más allá de su figura política.

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