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Armed Insurrection (Paperback)
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From the Paris Commune in 1871 to Hue, Cordoba and Detroit in our
day, the history of of proletarian insurrections is largely
uncharted-particularly in its strictly military and technical
aspects. Yet for Marx, Engels or Lenin it was axiomatic that
'insurrection is an art', and that without the most careful
preparation and planning for insurrection (as in Hue), the
spontaneous revolutionary action of the masses would always be
defeated by the organized violence of the ruling class (as in
Cordoba or Detroit). This book was produced in 1928 as a practical
insurrectionary manual for communists. It discusses the role of
armed insurrection in the Marxist-Leninist theory of revolution,
analyses a number of insurrections-both successful and
unsuccessful-with the aim of determining the conditions for
victory, and gives detailed information on the tactics of street
fighting-ranging from the respective advantages of offensive or
defensive action to the best method of building a barricade.
Written in Moscow under Comintern auspices, it is a classic Third
Period document. Its republication will contribute to the recovery
and appraisal of the early years of Soviet and Comintern history
which is so essential an ingredient in the forging of all
revolutionary theory and practice today. Published under the
pseudonym of 'A. Neuberg', the work was in fact written by a group
of leading Comintern political and military experts. One of the
authors, Erich Wollenberg, military leader of the Bochum rising in
North Germany in 1923, has written a new introduction for this
edition (the first edition in English) in which he gives his own
account of how the book came to be written, analyses the unstated
political background to the various insurrections it examines, and
identifies such of the authors as were known to him. These include
Mikhail Tukhachesvsky, then second-in-command of the Red Army, Ho
Chi Minh, Vice-President of the Secretary of the Comintern, and the
German Communist and leader of the Hamberg Insurrection, Hans
Kippenberger. The work was assembled by the Agitprop section of the
Comintern, headed at the time by Palmiro Togliatti.
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