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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.
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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