The Death of the Kpd: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956

ISBN-13: 9780198206934 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 352 str.

Patrick Major

Opis

The West German Communist Party was banned only eleven years after it had emerged from Nazi persecution. Using material available only since the end of the Cold War, Patrick Major shows how the once-powerful KPD foundered on the unrealistic aims of its East German masters, as well as the anti-communism of the Anglo-American occupiers and the Adenauer government.

Recenzje

Patrick Major's book is one of very few scholarly studies of the KPD in the Federal Republic, certainly the first that uses to full advantage the archives opened since 1989... Major has produced an intelligent study not just of a small communist party, but of the formation of German politics and society in the aftermath of total war and in the context of the cold war.