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Paul Froelich 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 German Communist Party (KPD). His previously unpublished memoir, only recently discovered, casts valuable new light on a key period, particularly the intervention by the Communist International that led to the disastrous 'March action' of 1921.

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Author:   Paul Frlich ,  Reiner Tosstorff
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
ISBN:  

9781642593464

ISBN 10:   164259346
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   10 August 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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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Paul Frlich, 1884--1953, was a communist journalist, politician, biographer of Rosa Luxemburg, and one of the major observers of the politics of the early twentieth century. Reiner Tosstorff teaches at the history department at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He has published monographs and articles on Spanish history as well as on the international workers' movement in the twentieth century.

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