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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticLorence, James J.
Title, AnalyticThe Milwaukee connection: The urban-rural link in Wisconsin socialism, 1910-1920
Journal TitleMilwaukee History
Date of Publication1980
Volume ID3
Issue ID4
Location in Work102-111
AbstractVictor Berger, a socialist leader, was born in Austria. He assumed leadership of the fight for an agricultural plank in the Socialist national platform. Against great odds and despite skepticism from party revolutionists, a rural, small-town Socialist movement had assumed substantial proportions in Wisconsin. Under the stimulus of war and domestic repression, a German ethnic movement emerged in the central Wisconsin heartland and lakeshore extension of das Deutschtum. The Milwaukee base was critical to this expansion, for without the stability it provided, a struggling radicalism would have lacked the resources and talent to challenge the political establishment. The Milwaukee connection became the lifeline to the out-state Socialists, their comfort in a hostile environment.
Call NumberMKI P84-120
MKI TermsSocialism/ Wisconsin/ Berger, Victor L./ Milwaukee (Wis.)