TY - BOOK AU - Major,Patrick TI - The death of the KPD: communism and anti-communism in West Germany, 1945-1956 T2 - Oxford historical monographs SN - 9780191677397 (ebook) : AV - JN3971.A98 U1 - 943.0874 22 PY - 1997/// CY - Oxford PB - Clarendon KW - Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands KW - History KW - Communism KW - Germany (West) KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Why was the West German Communist Party banned in 1956, only 11 years after it emerged from Nazi persecution? This book uses material from Communist archives in the former GDR and Western intelligence, to trace the final decline and fall of the once-powerful KPD UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206934.001.0001 ER -