Publication

2019 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

102,000 words, Guess

Page Count

408 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781108497497
  • ISBN-101108497497
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018042760
  • OCLC Control Number1053577501
  • Better World Books9781108497497
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCDD257.4.R67 2019
  • LCCDD257.4 .R67 2019

Description

Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, anxieties have persisted about Nazism's revival in the form of a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reveals, for the first time, these postwar nightmares of a future that never happened and explains what they tell us about Western political, intellectual, and cultural life. He shows how postwar German history might have been very different without the fear of the Fourth Reich as a mobilizing idea to combat the right-wing forces that genuinely threatened the country's democratic order. He then explores the universalization of the Fourth Reich by left-wing radicals in the 1960s, its transformation into a source of pop culture entertainment in the 1970s, and its embrace by authoritarian populists and neo-Nazis seeking to attack the European Union since the year 2000. This is a timely analysis of a concept that is increasingly relevant in an era of surging right-wing politics.

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Other Editions

  • Fourth Reich: The Specter of Naism from World War II to the PresentCambridge University Press2019-01-01

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