Introduction: Paul Frölich’s uncompleted memoirs
Reiner Tosstorff
Political Autobiography 1890–1921
Preface
1 Leipzig
A party worker from the time of the anti-socialist law
Leipzig hotchpotch
‘Bolshevism’ among the Leipzig Social Democrats
Other times
‘Socialism as a Commodity’
2 Hamburg
A cockfight
The ‘mammoth’
Old and young
Anecdotes
3 The War
Bremen
4 August
With the army
The conflict in the party
Kiental
The Arbeiterpolitik
Spartacus and the left radicals
General strike in Bremen
Army experiences, 1916–17
The wanderings of a soldier
4 November 1918
The revolutionary shop stewards
The Hamburg left in the war
6 November 1918
Revolutionary politics in Hamburg
5 Foundation of the Communist Party (Spartacus League)
Conference of the left radicals
The merger with the Spartacus League
January to March 1919
Leo Jogiches as party leader
6 Munich 1919
Polemical interlude
7 The Split in the Party
8 The Kapp Putsch
9 From the Kapp Putsch to the March Action
10 The March Action of 1921
Appendices
Karl Radek to the Central Committee of the KPD, 9 January 1919
Paul Levi to the Central Committee of the KPD, 16 March 1920
Selected Biographies
