Introduction : themes in the history of Weimar Germany / Richard Bessel -- The German revolution 1918-1920 : political revolution and social protest movement / Wolfgang J. Mommsen -- The impact of the inflation : inflation, the courts and revaluation /Did B. Southern -- Professionals and junkers : German rearmament and politics in the Weimar Republic /Michael Geyer -- The dilemma of German agriculture during the Weimar Republic / Dieter Gessner -- Women in Weimar Germany : the "Frauenfrage" and the fele /Helen L. Boak -- The politics of corporatism : Hamburg handicraft in the late Weimar Republic, 1927-1933 /Frank Domurad -- Working-class life and working-class politics : Communists, Nazis and the state in the battle for the streets, Berlin, 1928-19/ Eve Rosenhaft -- Industrial primacy in German foreign policy? Myths and realities in German-Russian relations at the end of the Weimar Republic / Hartmutt Pogge von Strandmann -- The dissolution of the bourgeois party system in the Weimar Republic /rry Eugene Jones.