Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. MAPS xi
4. PREFACE xiii
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxiii
6. 1. THE ORIGINS OF GERMAN COMMUNISM
7. 1. Resistance to the First World War 3
8. 2. Brest-Litovsk 28
9. 3. Germany, 1918 52
10. 4. Years of Civil War, 1919-1920 88
11. 5. The Kapp-Lültwitz Putsch 117
12. 6. The Road to the New Economic Policy 148
13. 7. The United Communist Party 171
14. 2. NATIONAL BOLSHEVISM
15. 8. The Reparations Crisis 189
16. 9. Karl Radek 201
17. 10. Communist Convention at Leipzig 219
18. 11. Struggle for Succession in the Russian Party 233
19. 12. Occupation of the Ruhr 252
20. 13. The Schlageter Policy 267
21. 3. THE COMMUNIST UPRISING OF 1923
22. 14. The Cuno Strike 291
23. 15. Preparation for the Uprising 305
24. 16. Dresden, Hamburg, Munich 329
25. 17. Effects of the German Defeat on the Russian Party 348
26. 4. THE PERIOD OF TRANSFORMATION
27. 18. Left Communism and the Dawes Plan 387
28. 19. The Hindenburg Election 412
29. 20. Stalin's Intervention in German Communist Affairs 432
30. 21. Russia's Foreign Policy versus the Comintern 456
31. 22. Socialism in One Country 471
32. 5. THE STATE PARTY IS INSTALLED
33. 23. Stalinization of the German Party 499
34. 24. The Reichswehr and the Red Army 515
35. 25. Trotsky and Zinoviev Form a Bloc 537
36. 26. The Defeat of the Bloc 573
37. 27. Agit-Prop: Agitation and Propaganda 606
38. 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
39. 28. Summary and Conclusion 629
40. Index 677