LEADER 03333cam a2200397Ia 4500001 28054 005 20240621143523.0 008 980409s1982 xx r 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)38264908 035 28054 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 DD801.B448 |bH65 1982 100 1 Holmes, Kim R. 245 14 The NSDAP and the crisis of agrarian conservatism in Lower Bavaria : |bnational socialism and the peasants' road to modernity / |cby Kim R. Holmes. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c1982. 300 xix, 323 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-323). 520 This work is a study of the rise of National Socialism in Lower Bavaria from 1921 to 1933, and how the process of modernization relates historically to the problem of Nazism. It has been more or less assumed by historians such as Barrington Moore, Jr., Timothy Alan Tilton and Hans-Jurgen Puhle that the outbreak of Nazism (or fascism) in rural areas of Germany was largely the result of reactionary social forces in the countryside rejecting progress and change--rejecting, in a word, modernity. The implication is that agrarian Nazism was a form of outraged tradition, a harking back to an atavistic vision of agrarian tradition and peasant parochialism. It is argued in this study that the growth of National Socialism in the agrarian society of Lower Bavaria was predicated on the demise of peasant traditions, and not on their fulfillment. It is shown that the NSDAP was most successful in regions where an indigenous peasant protest movement had done the most to undermine the mainstream Catholic political culture of Bavaria's traditional ruling party--the Bavarian People's Party. The NSDAP continued agrarian politics in the tradition of a modern peasant protest party, promising not only a radical restructuring of the agrarian economy, but a commitment to the symbols of a nationalist economic modernization of agriculture. By cultivating the image of a party dedicated to both economic change and cultural conservatism, the NSDAP was able to win over those segments of the agrarian population in Lower Bavaria that were the most uprooted from the traditions of Bavarian state conservatism and political Catholicism. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d1997. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 20 January 2012. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 651 0 Niederbayern (Germany) |xPolitics and government. 650 0 National socialism |zGermany |zNiederbayern. 650 0 Conservatism |zGermany |zNiederbayern |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Agriculture and state |zGermany |zNiederbayern. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=752492351&sid=22&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |uhttp://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib28054/8313721.pdf |zHosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hDD801.B448 H65 1982 852 |bwww 852 |bebook