Stalin and German Communism: A Study in the Origins of the State Party,9780878558223

Stalin and German Communism: A Study in the Origins of the State Party

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ISBN13: 9780878558223
ISBN10: 0878558225
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Pub. Date: 1981-12-15
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

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 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.

Table of Contents

Preface By Sidney B. Fay xxvii
1. THE ORIGINS OF GERMAN COMMUNISM
1. Resistance to the First World War
3(25)
Social Democracy and War
Liebknecht and Luxemburg
Luxemburg versus Lenin
2. Brest-Litovsk
28(24)
Separate Peace
The Left Communists
Spartakus and Brest-Litovsk
3. Germany, 1918
52(36)
At Kiel
November 9th in Berlin
The Workers' Councils
The Communist Party of Germany Is Founded
Gustav Noske
Bloody January
4. Years of Civil War, 1919-1920
88(29)
The Freikorps and National Bolshevism
Lenin versus National Bolshevism
The Weimar Republic and the Comintern Are Founded
The Bavarian Council Republic
The Hungarian Soviet Republic
Mussolini on the Horizon
5. The Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch
117(31)
German Communists Underground
The Officers' Rebellion
Carl Legien
Red Partisans in Germany
Effects of the Putsch
The Second World Congress
Zinoviev at Halle
6. The Road to the New Economic Policy
148(23)
Nationalization of Industry
The Red Army and the Party
Democratic Centralism
War Communism and the Trade-Unions
The Kronstadt Uprising
7. The United Communist Party
171(18)
Building the Party Apparatus
The March Action
A German NEP?
Discussion with Lenin
2. NATIONAL BOLSHEVISM
8. The Reparations Crisis
189(12)
Reparations in Kind
Germany, an Industrial Colony
9. Karl Radek
201(18)
In the Ranks of the German Revolution
Bloc with Brandler and Thalheimer
10. Communist Convention at Leipzig
219(14)
Organization Report for 1922
Red Bloc in Saxony and Thuringia
11. Struggle for Succession in the Russian Party
233(19)
Stalin Becomes General Secretary
Lenin's Testament on Party leadership
Lenin's Last Political Statement
Lenin Breaks with Stalin
12. Occupation of the Ruhr
252(15)
Passive Resistance
Die Essener Richtung
The Krupp Incident
Conference in Moscow
Radek Banks on a Reichswehr Coup
13. The Schlageter Policy
267(24)
The Schlageter Speech
National Bolshevism in Turkey?
A Russian-German Bloc
Forerunners of Nazism
3. THE COMMUNIST UPRISING OF 1923
14. The Cuno Strike
291(14)
Civil War in Gestation
Factory Councils versus Trade-Unions
Strike in the Money Press
15. Preparation for the Uprising
305(24)
Bulgaria Is Not Germany
Secret Session in Moscow
Blueprint for a German Red Army
Total Mobilization of the Party
16. Dresden, Hamburg, Munich
329(19)
Brandler in the Saxon Cabinet
The Chemnitz Conference
Fiasco in Hamburg
The Kahr-Ludendorff Plot
17. Effects of the German Defeat on the Russian Party
348(39)
Trotsky Breaks with the Politburo
The Maslow Commission
Talks with Stalin
Post Mortem at Comintern Headquarters
Lessons of October
4. THE PERIOD OF TRANSFORMATION
18. Leff Communism and the Dawes Plan
387(25)
An American Offer
Manuilsky's Mission to Berlin
Communist Convention at Frankfurt
The Fifth World Congress
The Reichstag Accepts the Dawes Plan
19. The Hindenburg Election
412(20)
Monarchist Resurgence
"Defense of the Republic"
Thälmann a Presidential Candidate
The Reich Bloc Is Stabilized
20. Stalin's Intervention in German Communist Affairs
432(24)
Stalin Explains Bolshevism to Maslow
Manuilsky versus the German Left
An Open Letter to the German Party
21. Russia's Foreign Policy versus the Comintern
456(15)
The Zinoviev Letter
Adventure in Estonia
Postlude in Bulgaria
22. Socialism in One Country
471(28)
Bukharin's Neo-NEP
Is State Industry Socialism?
A Personal Note on the Fourteenth Congress
5. THE STATE PARTY IS INSTALLED
23. Stalinization of the German Party
499(16)
The Ulbricht-Pieck System
The Party Hierachy under GPU Control
24. The Reichswehr and the Red Army
515(22)
Stabilization of the German Economy
Shall the Princes be Expropriated?
The German-Russian Treaty of 1926
Germany Rearms with Russian Factories
25. Trotsky and Zinoviev Form a Bloc
537(36)
Talks with Bukharin and Zinoviev
Roll Call of Stalin's Comintern Candidates
The Anglo-Russian Trade-Union Unity Committee
The Meeting in the Woods
Stalin Deprives the Opposition of Party Legality
26. The Defeat of the Bloc
573(33)
Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek
To Strike or Not to Strike
The Fourth International?
Trotsky is Banished to Central Asia
The International Left Meets in Berlin
27. Agit-Prop: Agitation and Propaganda
606(23)
The Red Front Fighters' League
Willi Münzenberg
Bert Brecht, the Minstrel of the GPU
Die Massnahme
6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
28. Summary and Conclusion
629

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