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REICHENBACH (Bernard), ‘Moscow 1921, Meetings in the Kremlin’, Survey, No. 53, London, Oct. 1964.
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REICHENBACH (Bernard), ‘The KAPD in Retrospect’, in Revolutionary History, Vol. 5, No. 2, London,
Spring 1994.
RÜHLE (Otto), ‚Bericht über Moskau’, Die Aktion, No. 39-40, Oct. 1920. An account of Rühle’s adventurous
voyage to Moscow; he broke after the second congress of the Komintern with the KAPD.
(Web: (in English)
SCHRÖDER (Karl), Die Geschichte Jan Beeks (Berlin: Der Bücherkreis, 1929). Biographical novel of
Schröder’s itinerary, under the pseudonym of Jan Beek.
SCHRÖDER (Karl), Die letzte Station (Bremen: Edition Temmen, 1995) (Fietje Ausländer ed.; contributions of
Habbo Knoch, Ursula Lamm and Heinrich Scheel). An account of the nazi hard work camps, where Schröder
was kept in confinement, after 1936. The book contains a circular letter of the Rote Kämpfer, April 1933.
VAN RAVESTEYN (Willem), De wording van het communisme in Nederland 1907-1925 (Amsterdam, 1948).
VAN RAVESTEYN (Willem), De roman van mijn leven (The novel of my Life), 1940. (The (unpublished)
memoirs of a leader of the Tribunist group and then the Dutch CP, in: Ravesteyn archives, IISG)
WIEDIJK (Pieter) [pen-plume: J. Saks], Kritische herinneringen, 1929 (Nijmegen: Reprint SUN, 1977).
SPECIALISED STUDIES
While there are abundant sources of original material, the same is not true for specialised studies. Most of the
studies of the council communism only cover the twenties.
The KAPD, revolutionary-syndicalism, and international communist Left
AUTHIER (Denis) and Jean BARROT [Gilles DAUVÉ], La Gauche communiste en Allemagne, already cited. A
good collection of translated texts. Book is centred on the German Revolution; the study of the ‘KAPDist’
movement and the Unionists is above all a good compilation.
BOCK (Hans Manfred), Syndikalismus und Linkskommunismus Linkskommunismus von 1918 bis 1923. Ein
Beitrag zur Sozial- und Ideengeschichte der frühen Weimarer Republik (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche
Buchgesellschaft, 1993). Firstly printed in 1969, actualised, with postface and a new bibliography.
BÖTCHER (Hans), Zur revolutionären Gewerkschaftsbewegung in Amerika, Deutschland und England (Jena:
Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1922). This doctorate, published during the German Revolution, remains a precious
source for the history of the Unionen.
BRENDEL (Cajo), Radencommunisme en zelfstandige arbeidersstrijd (Amsterdam: Rode Emma, 1998). (texts
by: Cajo Brendel, Otto Rühle, Paul Mattick, Anton Pannekoek, Henk Canne-Meyer, Henri Simon, on council
communism).
FOITZIK (Jan), Zwischen den Fronten. Zur Politik, Organization und Funktion linker politischer
Kleinorganisationen in Widerstand 1933 bis 1939-40 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Exiles (Bonn:
Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, 1986).
GRAF (Andreas), Anarchismus in der Weimarer Republik. Tendenzen, Organisationen, Personen; 2 Vols.,
Berlin, 1990. These.
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