Stalin and German Communism
A Study in the Origins of the State Party
Published on 4. September 2017
723 pages
978-1-351-48828-0 (ISBN)
Description
Through her long involvement in the German Communist party, Ruth Fischer amassed valuable material on its changing fortunes, the transformation of the Bolshevik party into a totalitarian dictatorship, and the degeneration of the Comintern. Drawing on this material and on her own vivid recollections, Fischer reconstructs the history of the German Communist party from 1918 to 1929. First published in 1948, this fundamental work opened up the study of the inner organizational life of a major revolutionary movement. In his introduction to the Social Science Classics edition, John Leggett reviews and summarizes the social, political, and economic issues and events that precipitated the revolution and those factors that contributed to its failure.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
2,94 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-48828-0 (9781351488280)
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07/2017
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Content
1: The Origins of German Communism; 1: Resistance to the First World War; 2: Brest-Litovsk; 3: Germany, 1918; 4: Years of Civil War, 1919-1920; 5: The Kapp-Luettwitz Putsch; 6: The Road to the New Economic Policy; 7: The United Communist Party; 2: National Bolshevism; 8: The Reparations Crisis; 9: Karl Radele; 10: Communist Convention at Leipzig; 11: Struggle for Succession in the Russian Party; 12: Occupation of the Ruhr; 13: The Schlageter Policy; 3: The Communist Uprising of 1923; 14: The Cuno Strike; 15: Preparation for the Uprising; 16: Dresden, Hamburg, Munich *; 17: Effects of the German Defeat on the Russian Party; 4: The Period of Transformation; 18: Left Communism and the Dawes Plan; 19: The Hindenburg Election; 20: Stalin's Intervention in German Communist Affairs * *; 21: Russia's Foreign Policy versus the Comintern; 22: * Socialism in One Country; 5: The State Party is Installed; 23: Stabilization of the German Party; 24: * The Reichswehr and the Red Army; 25: Trotsky and Zinoviev Form a Bloc; 26: The Defeat of the Bloc; 27: Agit-Prop: Agitation and Propaganda; 6: Summary and Conclusion; 28: Summary and Conclusion
