Turning Points in Modern Times
Essays on German and European History
Karl Bracher
Translated by Thomas Dunlap
Abbott Gleason
Foreword by Abbott Gleason
Preface
I. Historical Crises and Lessons
1. The Weimar Experience
2. History between Ideas of Decay and Progress
3. Thoughts on the Year of Revolution, 1989
4. The Janus Face of the French Revolution Today:
On Understanding Modern Revolution
5. The Ideas and the Failure of Socialism
6. Reflections on the Problem of Power
7. The Dissolution of the First German Democracy
8. Liberalism in the Century of Ideologies
II. The Legacy of National Socialism
9. Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism: The German
Dictatorship and Austria in the Antagonistic World
of European Nationalisms
10. Totalitarianism as Concept and Reality
11. Resistance in "Right Dictatorships": The German Experience
12. The Place of World War II in History
13. The Dual Challenge of the Postwar Period
III. Democracy in Transition
14. The Ethos of Democracy
15. Problems of Orientation in Germany's Liberal Democracy
16. The Germans and Their Constitutions and Institutions
17. Germany in Europe: Historical Changes and Current Perspectives between National Diversity and Political Unification
18. Revolution against Totalitarianism: From the End of Division to the Renaissance of Europe?
19. Forty (and Nearly Sixty) Years of Dictatorship: A Challenge to a Government of Laws
Notes
Sources
Index

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