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Now available from Haymarket Books in paperback in English for the
first time!

The German Revolution, 1917-1923 (Historical Materialism Book Series,
Vol. 5)

by Pierre Broué

with Introduction by Eric D. Weitz

Edited by Ian Birchall and Brian Pearce

"Germany 1917-1923 was the scene of the greatest working class
revolutionary upsurge ever in an advanced capitalist country. With the
old order disintegrating under the hammer blows of military defeat and
economic collapse, parties and groupuscules, trade unions and factory
committees, battled employers, the government, and paramilitaries to
inaugurate a new proletarian order. In his monumental classic, Pierre
Broué follows the revolutionary process from the standpoint of the
revolutionaries and their multiple organizations, strewn across Europe
and Russia, as they struggled to impose conceptual order on the
unprecedented cataclysms unfolding before them, to frame strategies and
tactics, and to win over the mass movements, in intense competition
with their communist, socialist, and anarchist rivals. Broué enables us
to feel that we are actually living through these epoch-making events,
not just by virtue of his brilliant narrative, but, even more so,
through his ongoing analysis and critique of the revolutionaries'
intra-party debates, sectarian maneuvers, and all too often
catastrophic decisions. As an introduction to revolutionary theory and
practice, for then and for now, this book is in a class by itself."
--Robert Brenner, Professor and Director, UCLA Center for Social Theory
and Comparative History

"Broué does full justice to the importance of his subject. This is a
work conceived on an epic scale, comprising 900 pages of carefully
researched text, plus a chronological table and biographical notes. The
editors are particularly to be congratulated for giving up to date
English references for Broué's original Russian and German sources
wherever these were available... Broué's magnificent work is imbued
with the spirit of this moment."
--International Socialism Journal

A magisterial, definitive account of the upheavals in Germany in the
wake of the Russian revolution. Broué meticulously reconstitutes six
decisive years, 1917-23, of social struggles in Germany. The
consequences of the defeat of the German revolution had profound
consequences for the world.

Pierre Broué (1926-2005) was for many years Professor of Contemporary
History at the Institut d'études politiques in Grenoble and was a world
renowned specialist on the communist and international workers'
movements.

Publisher: Haymarket Books
Subject: History
ISBN: 1931859329
Trade Paper: 6 x 9, 980 pages
Price: $50.00

Distributed in: Canada & the United States
Pub Date: :05/01/2006
http://www.cbsd.com/inventory.aspx?id=19037
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Available in the United Kingdom from Merlin Books
http://www.merlinpress.co.uk/acatalog/
THE_GERMAN_REVOLUTION__1917_1923.html

Hardcover edition available from Brill:
http://www.brill.nl/print.aspx?partid=73&pid=18304

About the Historical Materialism Book Series:

Series editors: Paul Blackledge (Leeds), Sébastien Budgen (Paris),
Michael Krätke (Amsterdam), Stathis Kouvelakis (London), Marcel van der
Linden (Amsterdam), China Miéville (London), Paul Reynolds
(Lancashire), Peter Thomas (Amsterdam).

More than ten years after the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed)
state ideology, a need for a serious and long-term book publishing
programme on Marxism has risen. Subjected to the whims of fashion, most
contemporary publishers have abandoned any of the systematic production
of Marxist theoretical work that they may have indulged in during the
1970s and early 1980s. The Historical Materialism Book Series addresses
this great gap with original monographs, translated texts and reprints
of "classics."