Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow, 1891-1941

Mario Kessler is Professor and Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History at Potsdam, Germany. He teaches at the University of Potsdam and has frequently been a Visiting Professor at Yeshiva University in New York and other American universities. He has written more than twenty-five books in German and English on the history of modern anti-Semitism, socialism, and the history of historiography. He also edited and co-edited many books on these and other subjects.

• 1. A Young Revolution Between Russian and Germany.- 2. The Decisive Moment: The German November Revolution.- 3. On the Ultra-Left in the Early KPD.- 4. The March Action and its Aftermath.- 5. Controversies Over Workers' Government.- 6. 1923 (I): The Ruhr Crisis.- 7. 1913 (II): A Missed Revolution?.- 8. Maslow and Fischer: Towards the Party Leadership.- 9. Politics from Prison: The Bolshevization of the KPD.- 10. Disagreements: The Divided Left.- 11. Disempowerment and Fall.- 12. The Leninbund: A New Beginning?.- 13. Flight and Exile: Pairs-Marseille-Lisbon-Havana.- 14. Maslow's Death.- 15. Avenging Maslow? Ruth Fischer's Crusade and Final Change of Mind.

“This is a well written and meticulously researched study about two tragic figures of the KPD.” (Udo Grashoff, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 99 (3), July, 2021)