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Stalin and German Communism

A Study in the Origins of the State Party
  • Ruth Fischer
  • Preface by: Sidney B. Fay
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1948
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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    MAPS

    xi
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    PREFACE

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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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  • 1. THE ORIGINS OF GERMAN COMMUNISM
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    1. Resistance to the First World War

    3
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    2. Brest-Litovsk

    28
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    3. Germany, 1918

    52
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    4. Years of Civil War, 1919-1920

    88
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    5. The Kapp-Lültwitz Putsch

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    6. The Road to the New Economic Policy

    148
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    7. The United Communist Party

    171
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  • 2. NATIONAL BOLSHEVISM
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    8. The Reparations Crisis

    189
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    9. Karl Radek

    201
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    10. Communist Convention at Leipzig

    219
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    11. Struggle for Succession in the Russian Party

    233
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    12. Occupation of the Ruhr

    252
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    13. The Schlageter Policy

    267
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  • 3. THE COMMUNIST UPRISING OF 1923
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    14. The Cuno Strike

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    15. Preparation for the Uprising

    305
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    16. Dresden, Hamburg, Munich

    329
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    17. Effects of the German Defeat on the Russian Party

    348
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  • 4. THE PERIOD OF TRANSFORMATION
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    18. Left Communism and the Dawes Plan

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    19. The Hindenburg Election

    412
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    20. Stalin's Intervention in German Communist Affairs

    432
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    21. Russia's Foreign Policy versus the Comintern

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    22. Socialism in One Country

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  • 5. THE STATE PARTY IS INSTALLED
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    23. Stalinization of the German Party

    499
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    24. The Reichswehr and the Red Army

    515
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    25. Trotsky and Zinoviev Form a Bloc

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    26. The Defeat of the Bloc

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    27. Agit-Prop: Agitation and Propaganda

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  • 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
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    28. Summary and Conclusion

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    Index

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eBook published on:
October 1, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780674333994
Hardcover published on:
February 5, 1948
Hardcover ISBN:
9780674282780
Edition:
Reprint 2013
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
22
Main content:
687
Illustrations:
20
Other:
10 illustrations; 4 maps
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674333994
eBook ISBN: 9780674333994
Hardcover ISBN: 9780674282780
Keywords for this book
Communism -- Germany.; Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands.; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933.
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Professional and scholarly;
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