James Retallack. Red Saxony. Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918.
Oxford University Press, 2017.
730 páginas.
Contents
Note on Sources
Introduction
Election Battles and Democratization
Socialists and Others
Saxony and the Reich
1 – On the Threshold of a New Age
Saxony’s Modernization
Electoral Politics in the Old Key
“New Ideas are Filling the World”
2 – The Possibilities of Liberal Reform
The Reichstag Elections of February 1867
Saxony and the North German Confederation
The Landtag Suffrage Reform of 1868
A “Liberal Era”?
3 – Enemies of the Reich
The Rise of Saxon Social Democracy
Red Saxony? The Shock of January 1874
The Struggle Against Subversion
4 – The Struggle Against Revolution
The National Context
Saxony’s Contribution
In the Trenches
“Valid”—“Not Valid”
5 – Against Liberalism and the Jews
Liberalism Adrift
Conservatives and Radical Antisemites
6 – Authoritarianism Under Siege
“1,427,298 Social Democratic Voters!”
Rowdy Business
Politics in an Off Key
7 – Suffrage Reform as Coup d ’État
“For Religion, Morality, and Order”
Throwing Down the Gauntlet
High Tide
8 – “Red Saxony!”
High Stakes, 1903
A Way Forward?
9 – Deflecting Democracy
“The Decent Opinion of Mankind”
Saxon Models
10 – Crisis and Retrenchment
Power of the Street
Holding the Line, January 1907
11 – Dance
A House Divided
Democracy in Disappearing Ink
12 – Politics in a New Key
Praxis, October 1909
Perplexed
Casting Ballots, Casting Stones
13 – Adrift
A Lost Half-Decade
Stirrings
Licking Wounds
Suffrage Reform: Right, Half Turn!
14 – Democracy Deferred
The Crucible of War
The Curious Republic of Gondour
Conclusion: The Spectre of Democracy
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