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654783
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Osmond, Jonathan,1953-
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Rural protest in the Weimar Republic : : the free peasantry in the Rhineland and Bavaria /\ Jonathan Osmond.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, N.Y. :: St. Martin's Press,, 1993.
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| Series Statement
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St Antony's/Macmillan series
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xiv, 224 p. :: maps ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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0312086237
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: 9780312086237
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: 0333524489
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: 9780333524480
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index.
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| Contents
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1. The Peasants of the South and West. Bavarian and Rhenish farms. The agrarian interest before 1914. Farmers in the First World War -- 2. The Bavarian Palatinate. A mixed economy. Agrarian organisation before 1914. The Agrarian League and the National Liberals. The war economy. Revolution and occupation -- 3. The Birth of the Free Peasantry. Post-war peasant activism. The ideology of the Free Peasantry. The Free Peasantry in the Saar and the Palatinate -- 4. The Free Peasantry and the Controlled Economy. Agricultural controls in the Palatinate. The Palatine peasant campaign. Free Peasant agitation in Bavaria. Agriculture and the inflation -- 5. The Free Peasantry and Separatism. The origins of Palatine separatism. The Autonomous Republic. The assassination of the president. British intervention. The political legacy -- 6. The End of the Free Peasantry. From the stabilisation to the slump. Peasant leaders and politics in the Palatinate. Rural protest in the later 1920s.
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The Free Peasantry in the Rhineland and Bavaria. Union in the Palatine Peasantry. The National Socialists and Palatine agriculture -- App. 1. Reich Ministers of Food and Agriculture -- App. 2. Bavarian Ministers of Agriculture -- App. 3. Governors of the Palatinate -- App. 4. National Assembly and Reichstag elections in the Palatinate -- App. 5. Chairmen of agrarian associations in the Palatinate -- App. 6. Chairmen of the Reich Association of Free Peasantries -- App. 7. Membership of agrarian associations in the Rhineland and Bavaria -- App. 8. Use of farm-land in the Palatinate -- App. 9. Harvests and yields in the Palatinate -- App. 10. Retail prices in the inflation -- App. 11. Rye prices in the inflation -- App. 12. Agricultural prices in the depression -- App. 13. Wine production in the Palatinate -- App. 14. Credit and emergency aid to Palatine agriculture.
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After the First World War peasants in south and west Germany campaigned to defend their economic position. They did so on their own account and not as tools of the Prussian Junkers. One radical organisation was the Free Peasantry, which thrived in the Bavarian Palatinate on the Rhine and led agitation further north and in southern Bavaria. Its peasant demagogues whipped up strong feelings in the farmers and wine-growers about state agricultural policy and parliamentary government.
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The results were peasant refusal to deliver produce, angry marches on government offices, and mass ceremonies to symbolise the peasants' plight. One political consequence was a separatist putsch in the Palatinate, followed by the gory assassination of the Free Peasant president by German nationalist paramilitaries. Another was a growing link between peasant discontent and the appeal of Hitler.
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The Nazis took over all the peasant organisations, including what remained of the Free Peasantry, and destroyed them.
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| Subject
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Peasants-- Germany-- Rhineland-- History-- 20th century.
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Peasants-- Germany-- Bavaria-- History-- 20th century.
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Rhineland (Germany), History.
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Bavaria (Germany), History.
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Rhineland (Germany), Rural conditions.
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Bavaria (Germany), Rural conditions.
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Germany, History, 1918-1933.
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| Dewey Classification
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943/.3085/08624
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DD801.R682O86 1993
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