Stalin and German Communism : a Study in the Origins of the State Party (1)

"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."--Provided by publisher CONTENTS MAPS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. THE ORIGINS OF GERMAN COMMUNISM 1. Resistance to the First World War 2. Brest-Litovsk 3. Germany, 1918 4. Years of Civil War, 1919-1920 5. The Kapp-Lültwitz Putsch 6. The Road to the New Economic Policy 7. The United Communist Party 2. NATIONAL BOLSHEVISM 8. The Reparations Crisis 9. Karl Radek 10. Communist Convention at Leipzig 11. Struggle for Succession in the Russian Party 12. Occupation of the Ruhr 13. The Schlageter Policy 3. THE COMMUNIST UPRISING OF 1923 14. The Cuno Strike 15. Preparation for the Uprising 16. Dresden, Hamburg, Munich 17. Effects of the German Defeat on the Russian Party 4. THE PERIOD OF TRANSFORMATION 18. Left Communism and the Dawes Plan 19. The Hindenburg Election 20. Stalin's Intervention in German Communist Affairs 21. Russia's Foreign Policy versus the Comintern 22. Socialism in One Country 5. THE STATE PARTY IS INSTALLED 23. Stalinization of the German Party 24. The Reichswehr and the Red Army 25. Trotsky and Zinoviev Form a Bloc 26. The Defeat of the Bloc 27. Agit-Prop: Agitation and Propaganda 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 28. Summary and Conclusion Index