001478378 000__ 05264nam\a22007695i\4500 001478378 001__ 1478378 001478378 003__ DE-B1597 001478378 005__ 20231026034900.0 001478378 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478378 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478378 008__ 230918t20092003mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478378 020__ $$a9780674036543 001478378 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674036543$$2doi 001478378 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)574600 001478378 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478378 0410_ $$aeng 001478378 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478378 072_7 $$aHIS014000$$2bisacsh 001478378 08204 $$a320.53/2/0943 001478378 1001_ $$aEpstein, Catherine, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001478378 24514 $$aThe Last Revolutionaries :$$bGerman Communists and Their Century /$$cCatherine Epstein. 001478378 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2009] 001478378 264_4 $$c©2003 001478378 300__ $$a1 online resource (336 p.) 001478378 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478378 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478378 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478378 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478378 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tILLUSTRATIONS -- $$tABBREVIATIONS -- $$tTHE LAST REVOLUTIONARIES -- $$tINTRODUCTION -- $$t1 OUTCASTS: Communists in the Weimar Republic -- $$t2 PERSECUTED: At Home and Abroad after 1933 -- $$t3 SURVIVORS: Communists during World War II -- $$t4 VICTORS: The Founding of East Germany -- $$t5 PURGED: Veteran Communists and Stalinist Terror -- $$t6 RULERS: East German Politics during the Ulbricht Era -- $$t7 LEGENDS: Veteran Communists as Antifascist Heroes -- $$t8 OUTDATED: East German Generational Dynamics -- $$tEPILOGUE -- $$tNOTES -- $$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $$tINDEX 001478378 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478378 520__ $$aThe Last Revolutionaries tells a story of unwavering political devotion: it follows the lives of German communists across the tumultuous twentieth century. Before 1945, German communists were political outcasts in the Weimar Republic and courageous resisters in Nazi Germany; they also suffered Stalin's Great Purges and struggled through emigration in countries hostile to communism. After World War II, they became leaders of East Germany, where they ran a dictatorial regime until they were swept out of power by the people's revolution of 1989. In a compelling collective biography, Catherine Epstein conveys the hopes, fears, dreams, and disappointments of a generation that lived their political commitment. Focusing on eight individuals, The Last Revolutionaries shows how political ideology drove people's lives. Some of these communists, including the East German leaders Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker, enjoyed great personal success. But others, including the purge victims Franz Dahlem and Karl Schirdewan, experienced devastating losses. And, as the book demonstrates, female and Jewish communists faced their own sets of difficulties in the movement to which they had given their all. Drawing on previously inaccessible sources as well as extensive personal interviews, Epstein offers an unparalleled portrait of the most enduring and influential generation of Central European communists. In the service of their party, these communists experienced solidarity and betrayal, power and persecution, sacrifice and reward, triumph and defeat. At once sordid and poignant, theirs is the story of European communism--from the heroic excitement of its youth, to the bureaucratic authoritarianism of its middle age, to the sorry debacle of its death. 001478378 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478378 546__ $$aIn English. 001478378 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. 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