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A Political Family: The Kuczynskis, Fascism, Espionage and The Cold War
John Green
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The Kuczynskis were a German-Jewish family of active anti-fascists who worked assiduously to combat the rise of Nazism before and during the course of the Second World War. This book focuses on the family of Robert and his wife Berta - both born two decades before the end of the nineteenth century - and their six children, five of whom became communists and one who worked as a Soviet agent. The parents, and later their children, rejected and rebelled against their comfortable bourgeois heritage and devoted their lives to the overthrow of privilege and class society. They chose to do ... Read more
The Kuczynskis were a German-Jewish family of active anti-fascists who worked assiduously to combat the rise of Nazism before and during the course of the Second World War. This book focuses on the family of Robert and his wife Berta - both born two decades before the end of the nineteenth century - and their six children, five of whom became communists and one who worked as a Soviet agent. The parents, and later their children, rejected and rebelled against their comfortable bourgeois heritage and devoted their lives to the overthrow of privilege and class society. They chose to do ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138232327
SKU
V9781138232327
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About John Green
John Green is a journalist and author who has written several political biographies. His particular area of interest is the history of East Germany.
Reviews for A Political Family: The Kuczynskis, Fascism, Espionage and The Cold War
John Green provides a wonderfully rich account of this family of intellectuals, social activists and fighters against fascism. He also offers new insights into what it meant to be on the pro-Soviet left during the twentieth century's 'age of extremes'. Matthew Stibbe, Professor of Modern European History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK ... Read more