Opponents of European Central Bank intervention to bail out the eurozone consistently cite Germany's experiences with hyperinflation in the early 1920s as a reason that the bank can not or should not ...

“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...

This article offers a comparative analysis of the inflationary experiences of Weimar Germany and post-Soviet Russia, applying theories about money and government budget constraints in the manner of ...

You could almost suppose that Germany has no past before 1933, so massively does the Third Reich overwhelm popular thought and historical writing about the country. But it does, and one of the most ...

In the early 1920s, the value of the papiermark (the native currency of the Weimar Republic of Germany) lost almost all of its purchasing power, causing tremendous instability within Weimar for many ...

The Weimar Republic, Germany's flawed experiment in democracy in the 1920s, has become today's paradigm for the failure of state and society. By the end of Weimar, the government seemed to have lost ...

America seems to be heading inexorably toward a Weimar moment, a slide toward political polarization from which it could be increasingly difficult to return. Weimar — that brief, brilliant and tragic ...

What happens when a nation that was once an economic powerhouse turns its back on democracy and on its middle class, as wealthy right-wingers wage austerity campaigns and enable extremist politics? It ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article offers a comparative analysis of the inflationary experiences of Weimar Germany and post-Soviet Russia, applying theories about ...