Stalin and German Communism - A Study in the Origins of the State Party (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Transaction Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1981
First published:	1982
Authors:	Ruth Fischer
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	726
ISBN-13:	978-0-87855-822-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political parties > General Promotions
LSN:	0-87855-822-5
Barcode:	9780878558223

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