The Life and Work of Willi Munzenberg
Author: Jørgen Schleimann
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 91
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Author: Jørgen Schleimann
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 91
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sean McMeekin
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Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780300098471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Drawing extensively on recently opened Moscow archives, McMeekin chronicles Munzenberg's political career throughout the 1920s and 1930s. He describes how Munzenberg parlayed his friendship with Lenin into a media empire, leveraging his corporate ventures against the currency of his reputation in the Kremlin. He explains how Munzenberg's mysterious financial manipulations outraged Social Democrats and lent rhetorical ammunition to the Nazis and how, by the last years of the Weimar Republic, Munzenberg and his Nazi counterpart Joseph Goebbels were firing off reckless propaganda salvos, feeding a destructive spiral of lies that poisoned the political atmosphere irrevocably.".
Author: John Green
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-27
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1000751538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilli Münzenberg was a towering figure in the anti-fascist movement during the first half of the twentieth century. He was acquainted with many of the leading left wing activists and thinkers of his day including Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Karl Radek. He also played a foundational role in several important transnational organisations such as the Socialist Youth International, the largest anti-war movement in opposition to the First World War, the International Workers’ Relief organisation, and the League against Colonialism and for National Independence. As a film distributor and promoter, he brought modern Soviet films to western Europe. As a publicist and manager, he built up the most influential left-wing media empire in the Weimar Republic and initiated the pioneering use of photography and photo montage. He was also a long-time member of the Reichstag. He was a pioneer in the use of a variety of media and the way he gained the support and collaboration of progressive politicians, artists and intellectuals ensured that he would become the leading, and most effective, opponent of Hitler’s and Goebbels’ propaganda machine, as he exposed the venality and brutality of the Nazis. Late in life, his turn against Stalinism almost certainly led to his mysterious death. This is the first detailed biography in English to give coverage to the full range of Münzenberg's activism. There are valuable lessons to be learnt from the book about the best ways to counter fascism which are powerfully relevant to our contemporary political situation. It should be of great interest to activists, scholars and those studying the history of the radical left.
Author: Stephen Koch
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of how Lenin and Stalin's propaganda agent, Willi Munzenberg, manipulated the Western intellectuals and politicians into effectively collaborating with the Soviet Union.
Author: Anton Kaes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 836
ISBN-13: 9780520067745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduces (translated into English) contemporary documents or writings with an introduction to each section.
Author: Michele L. Louro
Publisher: Global and International Histo
Published: 2018-03
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1108419305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the emergence of anti-imperialist internationalism during the interwar years from the perspective of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Author: Fredrik Petersson
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780773442986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of intrigue, power struggles and personal ambitions, this book outlines the communist ideology and strategy of eminent activists like Munzenberg, Nehru and Einstein."
Author: Hans Schoots
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9789053564332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighly prized biography of one of the Netherlands' most famous and controversial filmmakers.
Author: Román Gubern
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2012-01-04
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 0299284735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe turbulent years of the 1930s were of profound importance in the life of Spanish film director Luis Buñuel (1900–1983). He joined the Surrealist movement in 1929 but by 1932 had renounced it and embraced Communism. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), he played an integral role in disseminating film propaganda in Paris for the Spanish Republican cause. Luis Buñuel: The Red Years, 1929–1939 investigates Buñuel’s commitment to making the politicized documentary Land without Bread (1933) and his key role as an executive producer at Filmófono in Madrid, where he was responsible in 1935–36 for making four commercial features that prefigure his work in Mexico after 1946. As for the republics of France and Spain between which Buñuel shuttled during the 1930s, these became equally embattled as left and right totalitarianisms fought to wrest political power away from a debilitated capitalism. Where it exists, the literature on this crucial decade of the film director’s life is scant and relies on Buñuel’s own self-interested accounts of that complex period. Román Gubern and Paul Hammond have undertaken extensive archival research in Europe and the United States and evaluated Buñuel’s accounts and those of historians and film writers to achieve a portrait of Buñuel’s “Red Years” that abounds in new information.