Chapter 2 Artists, Intellectuals and the German Independent Socialist Party (USP): Some Preliminary Reflections

Chapter 3 René Schickele and the 1918 Revolution

Chapter 4 Kurt Tucholsky’s Analysis of the 1918–19 Revolution

Chapter 5 Ernst Toller: The Redemptive Power of the Failed Revolutionary

Chapter 6 Weimar and the Political Film: From Die Weber to Kuhle Wampe

Chapter 7 From Social Fascism to Popular Front: KPD Policy as Reflected in the Works of Friedrich Wolf, Anna Seghers and Willi Bredel, 1928–1938

Chapter 8 Politics and the War Novel: the Political Conception and Reception of Novels about the First World War

Chapter 9 ‘Militant Humanism’: a Concept of the Third Way in Exile 1933–1945

Chapter 10 Literary Exile in Great Britain

Chapter 11 Forms of Conviction: The Problem of Belief in Anti-Fascist Plays by Bruckner, Toller and Wolf

Chapter 12 Ernst Toller and the Exigencies of Exile

Chapter 13 Ernst Toller and Ireland

Chapter 14 Adventurism, Propaganda or Commitment? German Writers in the Spanish Civil War