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Weimar Communism as Mass Movement 1918-1933 (Paperback)
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Now a quarter of a century after the opening of the archives in
Berlin and Moscow, the role of the German Communist Party (KPD) has
been the subject of a new wave of studies. With this book, this new
field of scholarship will be available in English for the first
time. The book begins with the editors' comprehensive
contextualisation of the KPD within the history of the ill-fated
Weimar Republic, as well its location within the Moscow-based
Communist International (Comintern) thus bringing together the
global and the `local'. In the rest of the book, authors offer a
flavour of the rich texture of the world of German Communism.
Attention is given to the party's revolutionary origins in 1918/19,
accounting for the importance of not only Rosa Luxemburg's
Spartacus League, but also the `Left Radicals', whose stronghold
was Bremen and north-western Germany. The policy dilemmas of being
a mass party in Germany are then elucidated, but ultimately, the
party's fate and its policy-making were dominated by Moscow in the
process known as `Stalinisation', which neared completion by the
end of the 1920s. However, this volume also includes a detailed
appraisal of left-wing Communists' opposition to Stalin and
Stalinisation, as well as the party's changing relationship with
the SPD-led trade unions. A section in the volume presents new
research on how German communism aspired to reach beyond its core
support among the working class by examining its overtures to
peasants, avant-garde artists, pacifists and prominent left-wing
personalities outside the party's ranks. Finally, an account of
Stalin's own betrayal of German communism is offered after the
Nazis' `seizure of power' in 1933. This book represents essential
reading for academic, undergraduate and general readers interested
in twentieth German history and politics and the interwar communist
movement. With thanks to the Nina Fishman translation award run by
the Amiel Melburn Trust.
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