Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chronology -- 1 The birth of Weimar -- A dynamic but deeply divided society -- The impact of the First World War -- The German revolution of 1918-19 -- The Weimar constitution -- 2 The struggle for survival, 1919-23 -- The Versailles Treaty -- The recovery of the right, 1919-21 -- The Kapp putsch -- The 1920 elections and ensuing political instability -- The struggle against Versailles -- The occupation of the Ruhr, 1923-4 -- 3 Consolidation and confrontation -- 1924-8: the 'golden years'? -- Political developments -- Stresemann's foreign policy -- Economic recovery -- Oppostion to the Weimar system of government by 1928 -- 4 The collapse of Weimar -- The onset of the depression, 1928-30 -- Brüning and the great depression, 1930-2 -- Presidential rule to Nazi rule: June 1932-January 1933 -- 5 Weimar in retrospect -- Further reading.