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- Provides a comprehensive overview of various communist groups from the 20s up to the Cold War
- Offers readers the first close look at the figure of Arkadij Maslow
- Places Maslow's biography within the rich context of the history of dissident communism and revolutionary organization
Part of the book series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice (CPTRP)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“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)
“Mario Kessler offers a nuanced narrative of Arkadij Maslow that does justice to such a complex and interesting character in the 20th 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 ofpolitics.”
—Eric D. Weitz, Distinguished Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA.
Authors and Affiliations
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Leibniz Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany
Mario Kessler
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow, 1891-1941
Book Subtitle: Dissident Against His Will
Authors: Mario Kessler
Series Title: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43257-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43256-0Published: 01 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43259-1Published: 01 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43257-7Published: 30 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2731-6580
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 258
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political History, Political Theory, History of Modern Europe, Political Leadership, Labor History