Chapter 1 Introduction: Commitment and the Illusion of Power

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 13 Ernst Toller and Ireland

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