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7 - Secularists in War and Revolution 1914–1922

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Todd H. Weir
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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This chapter shows the significant role played by religious politics in the German Revolution of 1918. It examines first how the secularist subculture within German socialism contributed to the formation of wartime opposition that led to the 1917 split of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). It then follows the actions of secularists during the revolution itself, beginning with the attempts of one of Germany’s most prominent secularists, Adolph Hoffmann, to force through a radical program of secularization upon assuming a key position in the revolutionary government of 1918. It traces the politics of secularism in the writing of the Weimar Constitution before taking up the relationship of secularism to the “pure” council movement, which emerged in the years from 1919 to 1922 as an alternative both to parliamentary democracy and to Bolshevik party rule.

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Red Secularism
Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933
, pp. 196 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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