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Ernst Meyer, Leninist

A review of “Revolution as Realpolitik. Ernst Meyer (1887–1930) – Biography of a KPD Chairman”

by John Marot

Understanding the revolutionary process in Germany, over the first half of the twentieth century, and especially in the period from 1917 to 1928, is critically important for all revolutionaries. John Marot reviews Florian Wilde’s contribution to this understanding in his biography of one of the leaders of the German revolutionary movement, Ernst Mayer.