The German Revolution, 1917-1923, Volume 5

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Haymarket Books, 2006 - History - 991 pages

"Broué enables us to feel that we are actually living through these epoch-making events.... [D]o not miss this magnificent work."--Robert Brenner, UCLA

A magisterial, definitive account of the upheavals in Germany in the wake of the Russian revolution. Broué meticulously reconstitutes six decisive years, 1917-23, of social struggles in Germany. The consequences of the defeat of the German revolution had profound consequences for the world.

Pierre Broué (1926-2005) was for many years Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut d'études politiques in Grenoble and was a world renowned specialist on the communist and international workers' movements.

 

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Contents

The Battlefield
xxvii
Social Democracy Before 1914
9
The Lefts in German Social Democracy
25
FROM WAR TO REVOLUTION THE VICTORY AND DEFEAT OF ULTRALEFTISM
39
The War and the Crisis of Social Democracy
41
The Foundation of the Independent SocialDemocratic Party
71
The Rise of the Revolutionary Movement
87
Problems of the World Revolution
109
The Moscow Compromise
525
FROM THE CONQUEST OF THE MASSES TO A DEFEAT WITHOUT A FIGHT
551
Unity Preserved With Difficulty
553
A New Start
583
The Rapallo Turn
597
For the United Front Against Poverty and Reaction
605
The Mass Communist Party
625
The Workers Government
645

The November Revolution
127
The Period of Dual Power
155
The Crisis in the Socialist Movement
187
The Foundation of the Communist Party of Germany
207
The Uprising of January 1919
225
THE ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THE ROLE OF A COMMUNIST PARTY
257
The Noske Period
259
Stabilisation in Germany and World Revolution
283
The Communist Party After January 1919
297
The UltraLeft Opposition and the Split
321
The Problem of Centrism
331
The Kapp Putsch
347
The Communist Party at the Crossroads
379
Moscow and the German Revolutionaries
391
The Great Hopes of 1920
419
Paul Levi A German Conception of Communism
447
The First Steps of the Unified Communist Party
457
The Split in the Italian Socialist Party
473
The March Action
489
The Aftermath of a Defeat
503
The Development of the Tactic
663
The Occupation of the Ruhr
683
Crisis in the KPD
697
An Unprecedented PreRevolutionary Situation
707
The Overthrow of the Cuno Government
731
Preparing the Insurrection
753
Moscows View of the German Revolution
777
The German October
789
Aftermath of Another Defeat
815
AN UNDERTAKING CONDEMNED BY HISTORY?
835
History and Politics
837
Grafting Bolshevism onto German Stock
849
Paul Levi The Lost Opportunity?
873
Karl RadekThe Confusion of Styles?
887
Balance Sheet of a Defeat
897
Chronology
911
Bibliography
933
Biographical Details
957
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Pierre Broué (1926-2005) was for many years Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut d'études politiques in Grenoble. A world renowned specialist of the communist and international workers' movements, he is the editor of Leon Trotsky's writings in French. Eric D. Weitz is a professor of German History at the University of Minnesota. He is the author, most recently, of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (Princeton University Press)

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