Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 628 g
Reihe: Oxford Historical Monographs
Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956
Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 628 g
Reihe: Oxford Historical Monographs
ISBN: 978-0-19-820693-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Why was the West German Communist Party banned in 1956, only 11 years after it had emerged from Nazi persecution? Although politically weak, the postwar party was in fact larger than its Weimar predecessor and initially dominated works councils at the Ruhr pits and Hamburg docks, as well as the steel giant, Krupp. Under the control of East Berlin, however, the KPD was sent off on a series of overambitious and flawed campaigns to promote national unification and
prevent West German rearmament. At the same time, the party was steadily criminalized by the Anglo-American occupiers, and ostracized by a heavily anti-communist society. Patrick Major has used material available only since the end of the Cold War, from both Communist archives in the former GDR as well as
western intelligence, to trace the final decline and fall of the once-powerful KPD.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
