Through her long involvement in the German Communist Party, RuthFischer amassed valuable material on its changing fortunes, thetransformation of the Bolshevik Party into a totalitarian dictatorship, andthe degeneration of the Comintern. Drawing on this material and her ownvivid recollections, Fischer reconstructs the history of the GermanCommunist Party from 1918 to 1929. First published in 1948, thisfundamental work opened up the study of the inner organizational life of amajor revolutionary movement.