Table of Contents

1: The Origins of German Communism; 1: Resistance to the First World War; 2: Brest-Litovsk; 3: Germany, 1918; 4: Years of Civil War, 1919-1920; 5: The Kapp-Lüttwîtz Putsch; 6: The Road to the New Economic Policy; 7: The United Communist Party; 2: National Bolshevism; 8: The Reparations Crisis; 9: Karl Radele; 10: Communist Convention at Leipzig; 11: Struggle for Succession in the Russian Party; 12: Occupation of the Ruhr; 13: The Schlageter Policy; 3: The Communist Uprising of 1923; 14: The Cuno Strike; 15: Preparation for the Uprising; 16: Dresden, Hamburg, Munich •; 17: Effects of the German Defeat on the Russian Party; 4: The Period of Transformation; 18: Left Communism and the Dawes Plan; 19: The Hindenburg Election; 20: Stalin’s Intervention in German Communist Affairs • •; 21: Russia’s Foreign Policy versus the Comintern; 22: • Socialism in One Country; 5: The State Party is Installed; 23: Stabilization of the German Party; 24: • The Reichswehr and the Red Army; 25: Trotsky and Zinoviev Form a Bloc; 26: The Defeat of the Bloc; 27: Agit-Prop: Agitation and Propaganda; 6: Summary and Conclusion; 28: Summary and Conclusion

About the Author

Ruth Fischer

Reviews

-[Fischer's] intimate knowledge, together with use of all available material, makes [this] book probably the most thorough and complete work on the topic.- --Library Journal -[Stalin and German Communism] carries conviction and firmly drives home an authoritative explanation of the most significant events of our time.... [Fischer] has unusual qualifications for telling the story... Her story is thus partly autobiography and partly history, documented from an unusual combination of personal inside information and a conscientious study of the printed sources.- --New York Times -This book, restrained and erudite, will contribute substantially to general knowledge of world Communist history.- -- Saturday Review of Literature

"[Fischer's] intimate knowledge, together with use of all available material, makes [this] book probably the most thorough and complete work on the topic." --Library Journal "[Stalin and German Communism] carries conviction and firmly drives home an authoritative explanation of the most significant events of our time.... [Fischer] has unusual qualifications for telling the story... Her story is thus partly autobiography and partly history, documented from an unusual combination of personal inside information and a conscientious study of the printed sources." --New York Times "This book, restrained and erudite, will contribute substantially to general knowledge of world Communist history." -- Saturday Review of Literature

"[Fischer's] intimate knowledge, together with use of all available material, makes [this] book probably the most thorough and complete work on the topic.""" "--Library Journal" ""[Stalin and German Communism] "carries conviction and firmly drives home an authoritative explanation of the most significant events of our time.... [Fischer] has unusual qualifications for telling the story... Her story is thus partly autobiography and partly history, documented from an unusual combination of personal inside information and a conscientious study of the printed "sources."" "--""New York Times" "This book, restrained and erudite, will contribute substantially to general knowledge of world Communist history." -- "Saturday Review of Literature"