Ralf Hoffrogge

Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany

The Life of Werner Scholem (1895a 1940)

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Produktbeschreibung

A riveting biography of one of German Communism's most important, if little studied rank and file leaders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 660
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9781608469963
• ISBN-10: 1608469964
• Artikelnr.: 50990920

Autorenporträt

Ralf Hoffrogge, Dr. phil. (2013), University of Potsdam, is Postdoctoral Researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and has published widely on German labour history. His latest publication is Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement (Haymarket Books, 2015).  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Adolescent Years (1895–1914)
 The Scholems: A German Family
 Four Distinct Brothers
 Rebellion(s): From Zionism to Socialism
2 World War and Revolution (1914–18)
 War and Socialism in Hanover
 A Red in Field Grey: Werner Scholem on the Eastern Front
 Hospital Reflections, 1916
 Lèse-majesté: A Soldier’s Day in Court
 Werner and Emmy Scholem: A Mésalliance
 All Quiet on the Western Front: Werner Misses the Revolution
3 A Rebel at the Editing Desk, a Rebel in Parliament (1919–24)
 Independent Social Democracy and More: Werner Scholem as Agitator in
the USPD
 Journalism and Judiciary: Werner Scholem as Editor of the Rote Fahne
 Reform or Revolution? A Parliamentarian in the Prussian Landtag
 Scholem as School Reformer
 Anti-Semitism and the Ostjuden Debate
 A Reluctant Republican? Fighting Right-Wing Terror and Fascism
 The Philosophy of History in the Landtag
 Inflation, Crisis and Radicalisation
 Reform or Revolution: Scholem’s Answer
4 Communism: Utopia and Apparatus (1921–6)
 The Berlin Opposition (1921–3)
 National Revolution on the Ruhr? Scholem and Schlageter in the Summer of
1923
 From the Battle of the Ruhr to the ‘German October’ of 1923: New Conflicts
in the KPD
 Reaching for Power: Scholem and His Comrades Take Over the KPD
 The Power of the Apparatus: Werner Scholem Organises the KPD
 The Apparatus Strikes Back: The Left Opposition on the Defensive
 Scholem Versus Stalin: A Question of Democracy?
5 A Reluctant Defector: Werner Scholem as Dissident (1926–8)
 A Left Communist in the Reichstag
 The Lenin League: Werner Scholem Founds a Party
6 Back to the Lecture Hall: Family and University Life in Berlin
 ‘At Home with Communists’: Emmy and Werner in Private
 Life as a Lawyer
7 The Triumph of Barbarism (1933–40)
 The Arrest
 Separate Paths: A Family Falls Apart
 Espionage and Intrigue: Werner Scholem as a Literary Figure
 The Hammerstein Case: Fiction and Reality
 From the Supreme Court to the ‘People’s Court’: Scholem’s Last Trial
 A Stolen Life: Plötzensee, Lichtenburg, Dachau
 Murder in the Quarry
8 Remembering Werner Scholem
Appendices
1 Chronology of Werner Scholem’s life
2 List of Werner Scholem’s Places of Detention, 1917–40
3 Selected Articles and Publications by Werner Scholem
Bibliography
Index