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Kurt Eisner - A Modern Life (Hardcover)
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Kurt Eisner - A Modern Life (Hardcover)
Series: German History in Context
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The first comprehensive biography in English of the leader of the
Bavarian Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, the first Jewish head
of a European state and a man who embraced and embodied modernity.
At the end of the First World War, German Jewish journalist,
theater critic, and political activist Kurt Eisner (1867-1919),
just released from prison, led a nonviolent revolution in Munich
that deposed the monarchy and established the Bavarian Republic.
Local head of the Independent Socialists, Eisner had been jailed
for treason after organizing a munitions workers' strike to force
an armistice. For a hundred days, as Germany spiraled into civil
war, Eisner fought as head of state to preserve calm while
implementing a peaceful transition to democracy and reforging
international relations. He rejected another central German
government dominated by Prussia in favor of a confederation of
autonomous equals, a "United States of Germany." A Francophile, he
sought ties with Paris in hope of containing Prussia. In February
1919, on the way to submit his government's resignation to the
newly elected constitutionalassembly, Eisner was shot by a
protofascist aristocrat, plunging Bavaria into political chaos from
which Adolf Hitler would emerge. At the centenary of the Bavarian
Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, this is the first comprehensive
biography of Eisner written for an English-language audience.
Albert Earle Gurganus is Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at
The Citadel. He is the author of The Art of Revolution: Kurt
Eisner's Agitprop (Camden House, 1986).
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