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Rotten Foundations
Sperlich examines the ideological foundations of the socialist regime of the former German Democratic Republic. He provides a detailed analysis of the nature of the GDR's legitimating ideology and of the reasons why the ideology ultimately failed to legitimate the regime. The study uses primary source documents extensively as well as the little existing secondary literature. This is part of Sperlich's larger project dealing with the government, society, economy, political participation, and administration of the law and the system of courts of the GDR. This definitive treatment of the GDR provides the background essential to an understanding of all communist systems of the twentieth century. As such, it is vital reading for scholars, students, and other researchers seeking to understand the rise and ultimate collapse of communist systems and, in particular, the decline of the German Democratic Republic.
A Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow, 1891-1941
This book is a political biography of Arkadij Maksimovich Maslow (1891-1941), a German Communist politician and later a dissident and opponent to Stalin. Together with his political and common-law marriage partner, Ruth Fischer, Maslow briefly led the Communist Party of Germany, the KPD, and brought about its submission to Moscow. Afterwards Fischer and Maslow were removed from the KPD leadership in the fall of 1925 and expelled from the party a year later. Henceforth they both lived as communist outsiders—persecuted by both Hitler and Stalin. Maslow escaped to Cuba via France and Portugal and was murdered under dubious circumstances in Havana in November 1941. He died as a communist dissident committed to the cause of a radical-socialist labor movement that lay in ruins. Kessler considers Maslow's role in pivotal events such as the Bolshevik Revolution, in Soviet revolutionary parties and organizations, through to the rise of Stalinism and Cold War anti-communism. What results is a deep dive into the life of a key yet understudied figure in dissident communism.
Karl Kautsky
Political Science
Ein Buch vom Kommunismus
Das erste Kapitel des 1976 erschienen Buches, das der Autor in den Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts gelegt hat, erscheint wie ein utopischer Roman, denn wir alle haben diese Zeit anders erlebt. Der „real existierende Sozialismus“ in der DDR, in der nicht mehr existierenden Sowjetunion und in den anderen östlichen Ländern wurde wieder vom Kapitalismus verdrängt. Warum wurde also dieses Buch erneut veröffentlicht? Weil es der kürzlich verstorbene Autor für bewahrenswert hielt? Weil es noch, wenn auch wenig, Mitglieder kommunistischer Parteien gibt? Weil nach wie vor das sozialistische Kuba existiert, das sich anschickt, sich aus der erzwungenen Isolierung zu lösen? Das Buch beschreibt fu...
The Dream that Failed
Walter Laqueur as been hailed as "one of our most distinguished scholars of modern European history" in the New York Times Book Review. Robert Byrnes, writing in the Journal of Modern History, called him "one of the most remarkable men in the Western world working in the field." Over a span of three decades, in books ranging from Russia and Germany to the recent Black Hundred, he has won a reputation as a major writer and a provocative thinker. Now he turns his attention to the greatest enigma of our time: the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. In The Dream that Failed, Laqueur offers an authoritative assessment of the Soviet era--from the triumph of Lenin to the fall of Gorbachev. In the la...
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