Beating the Fascists? by Eve Rosenhaft - 9780521089388

Beating the Fascists?The German Communists and Political Violence 19291933\nAuthor(s): Eve Rosenhaft\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521089388, 978-0521089388\nSynopsis\nIn this book Eve Rosenhaft examines the involvement of Communists in political violence during the years of Hitler's rise to power in Germany [tel]. Specifically, she aims to account for their participation in `street-fighting' or 'gang-fighting' with National Socialist storm-troopers. The origins of this conflict are examined at two levels. First Dr Rosenhaft analyses the official policy of the Communist Party towards fascism and Nazism, and the special anti-fascist and self-defence organizations which it developed. Among the aspects of Communist policy that are explored are the relation between the international confrontation between Communists and Social Democrats as claimants to lead the left, and the implications of this.