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[[Franz Borkenau]] was a German writer, at one time an official historian of the [[Comintern]], and later a prominent anti-communist.<ref name="Saunders71">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.71.</ref> | [[Franz Borkenau]] was a German writer, at one time an official historian of the [[Comintern]], and later a prominent anti-communist.<ref name="Saunders71">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.71.</ref> | ||
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| + | Borkenau was close to the [[Neu Beginnen]] group in the German anti-fascist underground in the 1930s.<ref name="Jones77">William, David Jones, The lost debate: German socialist intellectuals and totalitarianism, University of Illinois Press, 1999, p.77.</ref> He argued for a vanguardist approach to underground organisation, arguing that a leninist style of organisational discipline and centralism simply made sense faced with the conditions of Nazi Germany.<ref name="Jones78">William, David Jones, The lost debate: German socialist intellectuals and totalitarianism, University of Illinois Press, 1999, p.78.</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:45, 16 January 2012
Franz Borkenau was a German writer, at one time an official historian of the Comintern, and later a prominent anti-communist.[1]
Borkenau was close to the Neu Beginnen group in the German anti-fascist underground in the 1930s.[2] He argued for a vanguardist approach to underground organisation, arguing that a leninist style of organisational discipline and centralism simply made sense faced with the conditions of Nazi Germany.[3]
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- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.71.
- ↑ William, David Jones, The lost debate: German socialist intellectuals and totalitarianism, University of Illinois Press, 1999, p.77.
- ↑ William, David Jones, The lost debate: German socialist intellectuals and totalitarianism, University of Illinois Press, 1999, p.78.
