Skip to product information
1 of 1

The Lost Revolution

Regular price $19.95
Regular price $0.00 Sale price $19.95
Sold out
Without understanding the defeat of the German Revolution, the great barbarisms that swept Europe in the 1930s cannot be understood.
  • 25 July 2017
View Product Details

Chris Harman unearths the history of the lost revolution in Germany—the swastika entered modern history on uniforms of the counterrevolutionary troops of 1918–1923—and reveals its lessons for struggles for a better world.

Chris Harman is the author of many books, including A People's History of the World.

files/i.png Icon
Price: $19.95
Pages: 335
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: International Socialism
Publication Date: 25 July 2017
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.13 in
ISBN: 9781608465392
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Political ideologies and movements, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, Politics and government
REVIEWS Icon

"Chris Harman's compelling analysis of the failed German Revolution covers the entire period from 1918 to the debacle of 1923, paying close attention to episodes such as the Bavarian Soviet Republic which are often neglected or minimized. Harman clearly demonstrates that this example of "lost revolution" was the real turning point in German history when history failed to turn, with dire consequences for the subsequent course of world history. The republication of this classic study of the revolutionary process is greatly to be welcomed."
—Neil Davidson



"Chris Harman's compelling analysis of the failed German Revolution covers the entire period from 1918 to the debacle of 1923, paying close attention to episodes such as the Bavarian Soviet Republic which are often neglected or minimized. Harman clearly demonstrates that this example of "lost revolution" was the real turning point in German history when history failed to turn, with dire consequences for the subsequent course of world history. The republication of this classic study of the revolutionary process is greatly to be welcomed."
—Neil Davidson
Chris Harman is the author of several books, including A People’s History of the World.