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  • [vi] On the idea of Russia's special path, see Leonid Luks, Der russische "Sonderweg"?

    openDemocracy 2009

  • Like their fascist predecessors on the Left searching for Sonderweg, these people are not interested in politics - the give and take of democracy.

    The Fairness Doctrine Returns. It Just Won’t Be Called That. - Erick’s blog - RedState 2009

  • About a decade ago, however, Russia took a different course after it had experienced a severe financial crisis, and ever since it has remained on its Sonderweg of economic nationalism.

    Eastern European Currencies Need Help Now Zsolt Darvas 2009

  • Indeed, it seemed easy for this recrudescing Arab Volk to adopt fanatical terror tactics in its effort to repel foreigners and find its unique Islamic Sonderweg -- that is, "special path."

    James Pinkerton: Grave Wisdom from a Grave Oxford Don 2008

  • Praise is due Bernard Williams's perceptive comments upon the paradox inher-ent in the scene depicting Siegfried's funeral cortège (Götterdämmerung): an overwhelming instrumental eulogy celebrating the career of a hero at most a cipher; the corpse of a nullity, who showed more than a touch of an idiot, passes in procession as Wagner's orchestra pours forth its most noble sounds — a Sonderweg, indeed!

    Wagner & Politics Gutman, Robert W. 2001

  • At the same time, Kramer argues that, though particularly heinous, Louvain was part of a broader trend – and one not necessarily the exclusive purview of Germany’s Sonderweg.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • Sonderweg: A Historiographical Examination of the Debate Surrounding Germany's "Special Path"

    historymike 2009

  • Sonderweg: A Historiographical Examination of the Debate Surrounding Germany's "Special Path"

    historymike 2009

  • Sonderweg: A Historiographical Examination of the Debate Surrounding Germany's "Special Path"

    historymike 2009

  • Sonderweg: A Historiographical Examination of the Debate Surrounding Germany's "Special Path"

    historymike 2009

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  • German, "special path". A theory in German historiography, a variously described supposed "special" path taken by Germany historically prior to 1945 (opposed to e.g. the democratic path of Western Europe and the autocracy of Eastern Europe), considered as a cause of latter German political structures and outcomes.

    January 23, 2020