Format:
Online-Ressource (356 p.)
ISBN:
9789004196070
Series Statement:
Historical Materialism Book Series, 31
Content:
Paul Levi remains one of the most interesting and controversial figures in the early history of the Communist movement. As leader of the KPD after the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, he successfully built up a party of a third of a million members, but by 1921 Comintern pressure for Bolshevisation forced Levis resignation and expulsion. Until his early death in 1930 he remained a revolutionary socialist of the Rosa Luxemburg school (Carl von Ossietsky), and was described by Albert Einstein as one of the wisest, most just and courageous persons I have come across. The first Englis
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Introduction; Part One Leading the KPD; Address to the Founding Congress of the KPD; Letter to Lenin (1919); The Munich Experience: An Opposing View; The Political Situation and the KPD (October 1919); The Lessons of the Hungarian Revolution; The World-Situation and the German Revolution; The Beginning of the Crisis in the Communist Party and the International; Letter to Loriot; Part Two The March Action; Our Path: Against Putschism; What Is the Crime: The March Action or Criticising It?; Letter to Lenin (1921); The Demands of the Kommunistische Arbeitsgemeinschaft
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Part Three The Soviet QuestionLetter to Clara Zetkin; Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's Pamphlet The Russian Revolution; Introduction to Trotsky, The Lessons of October; The Retreat from Leninism; After Ten Years; Approaching the End; Return; Part Four The German Republic; The Murder of Erzberger; The Needs of the Hour; Why Are We Joining the United Social-Democratic Party?; The Assassination of Rathenau; The Situation after Rathenau's Death; The Reich and the Workers; The Defenders of the Republic; After the Oath; References; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004204195
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg : Selected Writings of Paul Levi
Language:
English
Keywords:
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