LEADER 05128nam 22006975 450 001 9910392745203321 005 20230810170608.0 010 $a3-030-43257-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-43257-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000011223408 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6190677 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-43257-7 035 $a(PPN)259465917 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011223408 100 $a20200430d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow, 1891-1941 $eDissident Against His Will /$fby Mario Kessler 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (264 pages) 225 1 $aCritical Political Theory and Radical Practice,$x2731-6599 311 $a3-030-43256-4 327 $a1. 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. . 330 $a?Mario Kessler offers a nuanced narrative of Arkadij Maslow that does justice to such a complex and interesting character in the twentieth century of hope and horror. In some ways, we are actually treated to a dual biography, as this book is not just an astute account of the heterodox Marxist Maslow but also of his partner (both romantically and politically) Ruth Fischer.? ?Axel Fair-Schulz, Associate Professor of Modern European History, State University of New York at Potsdam, USA ?Mario Kessler brings Maslow to life and thereby shows the roads not taken, the various dissident politics of the period that kept alive for a better future in the worst of circumstances. The reader gets, therefore, a much richer view of communism and other radicalisms of the interwar period. Kessler opens the window on those whose lives were battered by the two major dictatorships of the twentieth century, Nazi and Stalinist, but who sought continually to create a different kind of politics.? ?Eric D. Weitz, Distinguished Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA. 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 is a 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. 410 0$aCritical Political Theory and Radical Practice,$x2731-6599 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aEurope$xHistory$x1492- 606 $aPolitical leadership 606 $aLabor 606 $aHistory 606 $aPolitical History 606 $aPolitical Theory 606 $aHistory of Modern Europe 606 $aPolitical Leadership 606 $aLabor History 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory$x1492-. 615 0$aPolitical leadership. 615 0$aLabor. 615 0$aHistory. 615 14$aPolitical History. 615 24$aPolitical Theory. 615 24$aHistory of Modern Europe. 615 24$aPolitical Leadership. 615 24$aLabor History. 676 $a335.4309 676 $a320 700 $aKessler$b Mario$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0881089 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910392745203321 996 $aA Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow, 1891-1941$92200124 997 $aUNINA