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GERMAN REVOLUTION, 1917-1923 : Historical Materialism, Volume 5 Paperback – 20 July 2006

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A magisterial, definitive account of the upheavals in Germany in the wake of the Russian revolution. Broue meticulously reconstitutes six decisive years, 1917-1923, of social struggles in Germany. the consequences of the defeat of the German revolution had profound consequences for the world.

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Paperback : 991 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1931859325
ISBN-10 : 1931859329
Product Dimensions : 15.24 x 6.6 x 22.61 cm
Publisher : HAYMARKET BOOKS (20 July 2006)
Language: : English

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Pierre Broué (1926-2005) was for many years Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut d'études politiques in Grenoble. A world renowned specialist of the communist and international workers' movements, he is the editor of Leon Trotsky's writings in French. Eric D. Weitz is a professor of German History at the University of Minnesota. He is the author, most recently, of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (Princeton University Press)

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A previous reviewer disliked this book intensely because it was a study of the German Revolution in relation to Marxist revolutionary theory. That is exactly why it is such an important book. The German revolution, following so closely after the Bolshevik revolution, was an opportunity to break out from "one country" and to generalise the possibility of socialist emancipation. That this did not happen led, eventually, to the twin tyrannies of Nazism and Stalinism. It is therefore surely worth looking at the nature of this failure. Alongside Chris Harman's excellent book, praised by the previous reviewer, you will find here materials for study and thought. Not simple answers, of course. The difficulties of building new socialist organisation are clearly laid out. The disastrous mistakes made are, indeed, tragic. I know no better source on Paul Levi's disputed role, and the role of Radek, Zinoviev, the ECCI (the leadership of the new Communist International)and so on. If you seriously want a Marxist study of the subject this is an essential book.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2009

What makes a good history book?
I would say a balanced selection of facts, good portraits of the main players on the historic stage and a good balance between facts, conjectures and judgements. And occasionally enlivened with contemporary reports.
Unfortunately this book fails on all three.
The context of Germany's defeat in WW I and the Versaille treaty is practically missing. The role of the army has been totally distorted. There is hardly any reference to the making of the Weimar Republic and it's constitution. There is no picture of what went on in Berlin - the total chaos - in the critical period of october 1918 - februari 1919 in Berlin.
There are no portraits of Gustav Noske, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg to name a few.
It's nearly impossible to get a good picture of the flow of historic events from the book, as facts are relatively sparse and are selected to support the view of the author.

So what is in this rather voluminous book?
The book seems more a treatise on marxist revolutionary theory applied to the German case and a history of the KPD (German Communist Party). Actions are judged by the question if they were "correct" from a revolutionary point of view. The correctness is measured if they correspond to the Bolsjevik doctrines.
At no point the question of how people in Germany lived through this period is questioned, there are only "the workers", "the working class". The legitimisation of the revolution and the programs for social reform are nowhere questioned (which a historian with the hindsight of the Russian history might well have done).
A further dominant feature of the book is the very exaggerated role of the KPD in the historic events (abdication of the emperor, resistance against the Kapp Putch)

The above critique is not meant to stay away from any marxist motivated history,
indeed Harman's The lost revolution is written from the same viewpoint but far better.
The best book on the German revolution imo is Richard Watt's The Kings depart. This book has the additional benefit of a very good description of the Versaille peace conference.

My advice stay away from "The german Revolution 1917-1923")

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