Donny Gluckstein is the author of The Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy (Bookmarks, 2006); The Tragedy of Bukharin (Pluto, 1994), and The Western Soviets: Workers’ Councils Versus Parliament 1915 1920 (Bookmarks, 1988). He is the co-author, with Tony Cliff, of The Labour Party: A Marxist History (Bookmarks, 1986) and Marxism and Trade Union Struggle: The General Strike of 1926 (Bookmarks, 1986). Donny is a lecturer in history in Edinburgh and is a member of the Socialist Workers' Party (UK).

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• Introduction Chapter 1: Backward or Modern? The course of German HistoryChapter 2: The origins of Nazism: revolution and counter-revolution 1918-1923Chapter 3: The crisis of Weimar: Hitler becomes chancellorChapter 4: The nazi machineChapter 5: The failure of the German leftChapter 6: 1933-34: A brown revolution?Chapter 7: The Third Reich: a fusion of state and capitalChapter 8: War and the HolocaustChapter 9: Resistance and OppositionNotesBibliographyIndex