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  • af Ben Fowkes
    513,95 kr.

    How did the revolutionary Left view cultural modernists? Their uneasy relationship is illustrated in this book with quotations ranging from Alexander's 'Dada is merely an impertinence' through Trotsky's 'There cannot be a proletarian culture' to Averbakh's 'Tear off the masks!' and Becher's 'There can only be one kind of genuine art: fighting art'This book covers communist attitudes to the whole field of cultural innovation, from the art of the left abstractionists to the literature of the worker-correspondent movement and the music of Weill and Eisler, through to proletarian film, theatre and photography. Historian Ben Fowkes takes full account of the impact on Weimar left culture of external events, such as the First World War, the 'Great Change' in the Soviet Union, and internal German developments-including the failure of revolution after 1918 and the rise of Nazism. Each chapter starts with an introduction that provides context for the relevant documents and explores the current state of research.

  • - Historical Materialism, Volume 75
    af Ben Fowkes
    408,95 kr.

    An indispensable collection of newly translated documents from the Left in Weimer Germany many available for the first time.

  • af Ben Fowkes
    598,95 kr.

    Communist parties came to power in a variety of ways, usually by force, often with the acquiescence of people who hoped for a better future. Then came the imposition of Stalinism. The book examines this, and subsequent crises in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

  • - From Stalinism to Stagnation
    af Ben Fowkes
    502,95 - 1.727,95 kr.

    The underlying theme of this new study is the communists' attempt to mould the region's varied economic, social, intellectual and cultural characteristics according to the model of the Soviet Union.