In the radical camp : : a political autobiography 1890-1921 /

In the radical camp : : a political autobiography 1890-1921 / / by Paul Frölich ; edited and with an introduction by Reiner Tosstorff ; translated by David Fernbach.

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Paul Frölich was a key figure in the formative years of German Communism. From a working-class family, he was active in the Social Democratic Party from the late 1890s, a left radical opposed to the First World War, and a founder member of the KPD. His previously unpublished memoir, only recently d...

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Superior document:Historical Materialism Book Series ; Volume 208
VerfasserIn:
Frölich, Paul, 1884-1953,
TeilnehmendeR:
Tosstorff, Reiner,
Fernbach, David,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 208.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Paul Frölich’s uncompleted memoirs
  • Reiner Tosstorff
  • Political Autobiography 1890–1921
  • Preface
  • 1 Leipzig
  • A party worker from the time of the anti-socialist law
  • Leipzig hotchpotch
  • ‘Bolshevism’ among the Leipzig Social Democrats
  • Other times
  • ‘Socialism as a Commodity’
  • 2 Hamburg
  • A cockfight
  • The ‘mammoth’
  • Old and young
  • Anecdotes
  • 3 The War
  • Bremen
  • 4 August
  • With the army
  • The conflict in the party
  • Kiental
  • The Arbeiterpolitik
  • Spartacus and the left radicals
  • General strike in Bremen
  • Army experiences, 1916–17
  • The wanderings of a soldier
  • 4 November 1918
  • The revolutionary shop stewards
  • The Hamburg left in the war
  • 6 November 1918
  • Revolutionary politics in Hamburg
  • 5 Foundation of the Communist Party (Spartacus League)
  • Conference of the left radicals
  • The merger with the Spartacus League
  • January to March 1919
  • Leo Jogiches as party leader
  • 6 Munich 1919
  • Polemical interlude
  • 7 The Split in the Party
  • 8 The Kapp Putsch
  • 9 From the Kapp Putsch to the March Action
  • 10 The March Action of 1921
  • Appendices
  • Karl Radek to the Central Committee of the KPD, 9 January 1919
  • Paul Levi to the Central Committee of the KPD, 16 March 1920
  • Selected Biographies.

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