Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Social crisis, radical politics and organized violence in Weimar Germany; 2. The Party, the neighbourhood and the uses of violence in the `Third Period'; 3. Defining the enemy: The wehrhafter Kampf against the SA in theory and propaganda; 4. Organizing the wehrhafter Kampf: The Communist defence formations; 5. Between 'individual terror' and 'mass terror': The campaign against the SA-taverns, 1931; 6. The shape of violence in the neighbourhoods; 7. Who were the streetfighters?; 8. Conclusion: Communist politics in the Weimar Republic.

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In this book Eve Rosenhaft examines the involvement of Communists in political violence during the years of Hitler's rise to power in Germany (1929–33).