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... are portrayed through the prism of her father’s experiences; the interview then addresses Heller’s functioning within the communist system, with a special focus on the figure of György Lukács. Both figures are central to Heller’s life: her father instilled in her a belief in liberal values, while Lukács, after...

...Cristina Cuevas-Wolf The German photomontagist John Heartfield visualized Willi Münzenberg's antifascist position in the Communist Party as early as 1932 and became famous for antifascist photomontages, published exclusively in the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ) from 1929 to 1938. Heartfield...

...Annie Pfeifer Rather than establishing literary relations with Russian intellectuals or securing the affections of his Latvian love interest, Walter Benjamin spends most of his 1926–27 Soviet sojourn shopping for toys. Benjamin’s habits present an interesting counterpoint to his communist...

...Stephen Brockmann This article examines continuities between East German literary and filmic cultures in the late 1940s and 1950s and the Weimar Republic. The postwar account of Weimar history and the collapse of German democracy featured a heroic Communist Party and the concept of a genetic...

...Sabine Kriebel Because photomontage is based on the structural principle of pictorial rupture and reassembly, the medium is understood in scholarly literature as the symbolic register of the shocks and disjunctures of modern life. Yet most of John Heartfield's photomontages for the communist...

...Maria Gough Drawing on archival and recently published documents, this essay examines the historical encounter of two major communist photomonteurs in Moscow in 1931—John Heartfield, visiting from Weimar Germany under the auspices of the Comintern, and Gustavs Klucis, a Latvian resident of the city...

...Cristina Cuevas-Wolf This essay posits that the tactical alliance in the mid-1920s between Willi Münzenberg and John Heartfield shaped the imagery of a united political front for the Communist International (Comintern). The collaboration between the Comintern's minister of propaganda for western...

...Mary Nolan This article examines how the Federal Republic of Germany responded to leftist political dissent, protest, and violence by constructing it as extremism and criminalizing forms of opposition and protest. This occurred during the outlawing of the Communist Party of Germany in the 1950s...

... of conspiracy or of links between the arsonist Marinus van der Lubbe, a disaffected Dutch council communist, and the Nazis has ever emerged. Much of the controversy has been forensic: it concerns ques- tions about van der Lubbe’s movements on the night of the fi re, the time line of events...

... an article by Edward Hunter titled “‘Brain-Washing’ Tac- tics Force Chinese into Ranks of Communist Party.” Hunter, a CIA-supported journalist and eventual editor of the psychological warfare journal Tactics, would go on to publish two books on the subject: Brain-Washing in Red China: The Calculated...

...? In the preface to his 2018 book Lukács György és tanítványai ( György Lukács and His Students ), János Weiss, an undisputed authority on the Frankfurt School, writes that the Budapest School made it possible for “alternative philosophical thinking” to come into being in communist Hungary and form...

... to incorporate into the West’s inchoate memory of the Holocaust. Largely for that very reason, however, it was particularly apt for appropriation by Jewish communists of the Stalinist era. While a renowned American Yiddish writer, H. Leyvik, questioned the authenticity of Khurbn Varshe and dismissed...

... that was at times referred to by its mostly communist and radical-leftist protagonists by the term world literature . 4 It attempted to create a transnational and transcultural distribution of proletarian and left-wing literary texts through the organizations of the labor movement rather than through...

... ground, it also often created a fatal blindness rendering Western intellectuals to often sacrifice both their moral and political judgments (189–90). They were not, he suggests, sufficiently aware that already in the 1920s “Communists invested the term Fascism with an elasticity and imprecision...

..., contributors to the communist literary journal The Left Turn (Die Linkskurve) such as Klaus Neukrantz and Johannes R. Becher fiercely denounced Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) because of what they saw as its distorted representation of proletarian reality.5 These clear demarcations may...

... surveillance sheds new light on his readings of Kafka. Did Goldstücker read through the prism of Kafka’s novel his own 1953 trial and the false testimony he was forced to deliver against his onetime patron within the Communist Party, Rudolf Slánský? If so, when did he make this connection? What role...

... of the second volume as a refugee in Paris. Here he rededicates himself to the antifascist resistance, promising to join the Communist Party. The Aesthetics of Resistance documents the costs of this pledged unity, costs that range from murderous purges in the ranks of the resistance to the capture...

... in Hamburg in 1936, the son of a Jewish worker murdered at Auschwitz in 1943, Biermann moved from West to East Germany in 1953 at the age of seventeen, already a communist. At Humboldt University he studied philosophy and mathematics and began to write songs, drawing the attention of Hanns Eisler, composer...

... current. Just after a sentence respectively criticizing Social Democrats and Communists that could be attributed to either speaker or to both of them, a pronominal we emerges in which Ström and Rogeby are, as I believe readers are given to understand, speaking together and then merging...

..., and Noah B. Strote As the Cold War order in Europe crystallized in the late 1940s and divided Germany into two antagonistic blocs, few periods suffered a worse reputation than the Weimar era. Across the communist-capitalist divide, politicians and thinkers looked at the republic’s violent years...