The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956

by Patrick Major

Overview

The West German Communist Party was banned only eleven years after it had emerged from Nazi persecution. Using material available only since the end of the Cold War, Patrick Major shows how the once-powerful KPD foundered on the unrealistic aims of its East German masters, as well as the anti-communism of the Anglo-American occupiers and the Adenauer government.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198206934
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/09/1998
Series:	Oxford Historical Monographs
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1630L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Warwick

Editorial Reviews

"This study fills a significant gap in the history of West Germany and communism."—CHOICE

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