The "Bolshevisation" of the KPD, 1924-5
Werner Scholem, Ruth Fischer, Arkadi Maslow - leaders of the KPD in 1924-5 Hermann Weber's Die Wandlung des deutschen Kommunismus gives a detailed account of "Bolshevisation" in 1924-5 in the German Communist Party (KPD). The KPD was then an authentic revolutionary-socialist party, not the Stalinist organisation it later became. It was the biggest communist party outside the USSR. It was also morally and intellectually the most weighty, with many activists and writers trained in Rosa Luxemburg's "left-radical" wing of the old German Social Democracy. In November 1918 it had been the first...