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Weimar Communism as Mass Movement 1918-1933

Weimar Communism as Mass Movement 1918-1933

Hoffrogge, Ralf
Laporte, Norman

Paperback

Series: Studies in Twentieth Century Communism

German HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1910448982
ISBN13: 9781910448984
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: Oct 1 2017
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

A quarter of a century after the opening of the archives in Berlin and Moscow, the role of the German Communist Party (KPD) is the subject of a new wave of studies. This book makes this new field of scholarship 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 expose 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 elucidated, as is 'Stalinisation': the process by which the party's fate and policy-making ultimately became dominated by Moscow.

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