Communism in the West and exile

Tagung des Graduiertenkolleg "Geschichte linker Politik in Deutschland" 2016 am ZZF.

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Conference of the Graduate School on June 23, 2016 at the ZZF Potsdam, photo: Marion Schlöttke.

From 2014 to 2018, the Graduate School (Graduiertenkolleg): History of Left-Wing Politics in Germany beyond Social Democracy and Communism" was conducted at the ZZF Potsdam with several sub-projects. The Graduate School was established under the auspices of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (RLS) and funded by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research between 2014 and 2018. Mario Keßler, who was the project co-leader at ZZF and is since 2021 a Senior Fellow at the institute, is working on a book project in this field.

Projekte

Mario Keßler

Paul Merker. A Communist in the Malstream of History (1894-1969)

Book project

Paul Merker, Politburo member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Socialist Unity Party (SED) was the highest-ranking East German Communist politician to fell victim of the Stalinist repression in the 1950s in the GDR. The planned book attempts to present the first full-scale political biography of Paul Merker.