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In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg

By David Fernbach , Paul Levi

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2011
ISBN
9004196072, 9789004196070
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3422654 bytes)
Series
Historical Materialism Book Series
Pages
350\357
Time added
2013-11-20 13:23:25

Description

Paul Levi remains one of the most interesting and controversial figures in the early history of the Communist movement. As leader of the KPD after the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, he successfully built up a party of a third of a million members, but by 1921 Comintern pressure for Bolshevisation forced Levis resignation and expulsion. Until his early death in 1930 he remained a revolutionary socialist of the Rosa Luxemburg school (Carl von Ossietsky), and was described by Albert Einstein as one of the wisest, most just and courageous persons I have come across. The first English edition of Levis writings fills a long-standing gap in the documents of German Communism.

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