Paul Frlich: In the Radical Camp: A Political Autobiography 1890-1921
By (Author) Paul Frlich
Edited and translated by Reiner Tosstorff
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books
16th November 2021
United States
General
Non Fiction
Left-of-centre democratic ideologies
European history
Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
Social and cultural history
324.243075092
Paperback
270
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
Paul Froelich was a key figure in the formative years of German Communism. From a working-class family, he was active in the Social Democratic Party from the late 1890s, a left radical opposed to the First World War, and a founder member of the German Communist Party (KPD). His previously unpublished memoir, only recently discovered, casts valuable new light on a key period, particularly the intervention by the Communist International that led to the disastrous 'March action' of 1921.
Paul Frlich, 1884--1953, was a communist journalist, politician, biographer of Rosa Luxemburg, and one of the major observers of the politics of the early twentieth century.
Reiner Tosstorff teaches at the history department at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He has published monographs and articles on Spanish history as well as on the international workers' movement in the twentieth century.