German Communism, Workers’ Protest, and Labor Unions

Larry Peterson (1949) received a PhD from Columbia University in 1979, and has been Managing Editor of Comparative Politics since 1983. He published widely about German, American, and comparative labor history.

• 1: Labor Unions and the German Left before 1920.- One: The KPD, the Labor Unions, and Economic Movements in Rhineland-Westphalia, 1920–1924.- 2: The Unified KPD’s Offensive in the Labor Unions and the March Action: Brithpangs of an Industrial Strategy.- 3: Heran an die Massen! The United Front in the Unions.- 4: Hyperinflation, Rank-and-File Action, and Revolutionary Politics.- 5: 1923: The Almost Revolution.- 6: The Crisis of the Unions and the KPD.- Two: Structure, Organization, and Political Program.- 7: The Social Structure of the Communist Opposition.- 8: The Industrial Road to Revolution.- 9: Rank-and-File Organization.- 10: Social Transformation of the Unions.- 11: The United Front.- Notes.