The German Revolution, 1917-1923 / / by Pierre Broue ; translated by John Archer and edited by Ian Birchall and Brian Pearce ; with an introduction by Eric D. Weitz.

On 12 October 1923, Grigory Zinoviev, president of the Communist International wrote the following in Pravda : The German events are developing with the inexorability of fate. The path which it took the Russian Revolution twelve years to cover, from 1906 to 1917, will have taken the German Revolutio...

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Superior document:Historical materialism book series, 5
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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Historical materialism book series ; 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxvii, 991 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Battlefield
  • Social Democracy Before 1914
  • The Lefts in German Social Democracy
  • The War and the Crisis of Social Democracy
  • The Foundation of the Independent Social-Democratic Party
  • The Rise of the Revolutionary Movement
  • Problems of the World Revolution
  • The November Revolution
  • The Period of Dual Power
  • The Crisis in the Socialist Movement
  • The Foundation of the Communist Party of Germany
  • The Uprising of January 1919
  • The Noske Period
  • Stabilisation in Germany and World Revolution
  • The Communist Party After January 1919
  • The Ultra-Left Opposition and the Split
  • The Problem of Centrism
  • The Kapp Putsch
  • The Communist Party at the Crossroads
  • Moscow and the German Revolutionaries
  • The Great Hopes of 1920
  • Paul Levi: A German Conception of Communism
  • The First Steps of the Unified Communist Party
  • The Split in the Italian Socialist Party
  • The March Action
  • The Aftermath of a Defeat
  • The Moscow Compromise
  • Unity Preserved With Difficulty
  • A New Start
  • The Rapallo Turn
  • For the United Front Against Poverty and Reaction
  • The 'Mass Communist Party'
  • The Workers' Government
  • The Development of the Tactic
  • The Occupation of the Ruhr
  • Crisis in the KPD
  • An Unprecedented Pre-Revolutionary Situation
  • The Overthrow of the Cuno Government
  • Preparing the Insurrection
  • Moscow's View of the German Revolution
  • The German October
  • Aftermath of Another Defeat
  • History and Politics
  • Grafting Bolshevism onto German Stock
  • Paul Levi:The Lost Opportunity?
  • Karl Radek:The Confusion of Styles?
  • Balance Sheet of a Defeat
  • Chronology
  • Bibliography.