A Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow, 1891-1941

Dissident Against His Will

Mario Kessler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 258 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-43256-0 (ISBN)

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This book is a political biography of Arkadij Maksimovich Maslow (1891-1941), a German Communist politician and later a dissident and opponent to Stalin. Together with his political and common-law marriage partner, Ruth Fischer, Maslow briefly led the Communist Party of Germany, the KPD, and brought about its submission to Moscow. Afterwards Fischer and Maslow were removed from the KPD leadership in the fall of 1925 and expelled from the party a year later. Henceforth they both lived as communist outsiders-persecuted by both Hitler and Stalin. Maslow escaped to Cuba via France and Portugal and was murdered under dubious circumstances in Havana in November 1941. He died as a communist dissident committed to the cause of a radical-socialist labor movement that lay in ruins. Kessler considers Maslow's role in pivotal events such as the Bolshevik Revolution, in Soviet revolutionary parties and organizations, through to the rise of Stalinism and Cold War anti-communism. What results isa deep dive into the life of a key yet understudied figure in dissident communism.

Mario Kessler is Professor and Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History at Potsdam, Germany. He teaches at the University of Potsdam and has frequently been a Visiting Professor at Yeshiva University in New York and other American universities. He has written more than twenty-five books in German and English on the history of modern anti-Semitism, socialism, and the history of historiography. He also edited and co-edited many books on these and other subjects.

1. A Young Revolution Between Russian and Germany.- 2. The Decisive Moment: The German November Revolution.- 3. On the Ultra-Left in the Early KPD.- 4. The March Action and its Aftermath.- 5. Controversies Over Workers' Government.- 6. 1923 (I): The Ruhr Crisis.- 7. 1913 (II): A Missed Revolution?.- 8. Maslow and Fischer: Towards the Party Leadership.- 9. Politics from Prison: The Bolshevization of the KPD.- 10. Disagreements: The Divided Left.- 11. Disempowerment and Fall.- 12. The Leninbund: A New Beginning?.- 13. Flight and Exile: Pairs-Marseille-Lisbon-Havana.- 14. Maslow's Death.- 15. Avenging Maslow? Ruth Fischer's Crusade and Final Change of Mind.

"This is a well written and meticulously researched study about two tragic figures of the KPD." (Udo Grashoff, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 99 (3), July, 2021)

Erscheinungsdatum	05.05.2020
Reihe/Serie	Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
Zusatzinfo	XV, 258 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	488 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Schlagworte	boshevization • Cold War • communism • Ernst Meyer • Ernst Thälmann • European History • German Communism • international communism • Karl Radek • KPD party • Lenin • Marx • Marxism • nazi dictatorship • Ruth Fischer • Socialism • Soviet Union • Stalin • Stalinization • US-American history
ISBN-10	3-030-43256-4 / 3030432564
ISBN-13	978-3-030-43256-0 / 9783030432560
Zustand	Neuware