Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Inhalt 5
3. Introduction 7
4. VIOLENCE, STATE AND ORDER
5. The Crowd in the German November Revolution 1918 37
6. “Incapable of Securing Order?” 59
7. Labour Conflict and Everyday Violence as “Revolution”? 83
8. COMMUNICATION AND IMAGINARIES
9. Gender and the Imaginary of Revolution in Germany 103
10. Fear of Revolution 127
11. German Defeat in World War I, Influenza and Postwar Memory 151
12. SUBJECTIVITIES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
13. Activist Subjectivities and the Charisma of World Revolution 181
14. ‘Moral Power’ and Cultural Revolution 205
15. Simultaneity of the Un-simultaneous 229
16. Commentary 251
17. Commentary 257
18. About the Authors 263