A tremendous, historical and personal record of the changes,
Russian instigated, within the Social Democratic Party in Germany,
from the end of World War I through the transitional years of the
manipulation of the German Social Democrats and the Stalinization.
As a representative of a democratic workers' organization, the
author opposed the Russian alliance in 1926, was virtually a state
prisoner, and was expe?? when she protested the growing
subservience to Moscow. She was an eye witness to many of the
crises arising in the Lemin-Trotsky period, the emergent days of
Stalin, the growing terrorism of the State Party regime, and her
report is replete with tabulation of political changes, leaders'
capitulation to Soviet indoctrination, the day-to-day shift of
loyalties, beliefs, policies. A massive t??, of interest basically
to those close students of world politics, of the pattern of power
trends. (Kirkus Reviews)
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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