Arnold Reisberg

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Arnold Reisberg (born February 17, 1904 in Boryslaw , † July 20, 1980 in Berlin ) was an Austrian Marxist historian . His pseudonym was "Bruno Braun".

Life

Reisberg came to Vienna with his family from the eastern part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy as a child in the first decade of the 20th century . After attending secondary school , he began studying history at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna in the winter semester of 1922/23 . In 1927 he submitted his dissertation under the title The economic connection between Austria and Germany in the years 1840–1848 and received his doctorate in 1928 under the historian Alfons Dopsch .

In 1923 Reisberg joined the Communist Youth Association together with Alfred Klahr and Arnold Deutsch and in 1924 the KPÖ . From 1924 to 1932 he was head of the propaganda department of the KPÖ. He was one of the organizers of the Marxist Evening School (MASCH) of the KPÖ, and later its director. In 1932 he became the editor in charge of the theoretical body of the KPÖ Der Kommunist .

Reisberg was imprisoned several times between 1927 and 1934 and was expelled from Austria after the February fighting . In Czechoslovakia he held training courses for Schutzbündler in Brno . In 1935 he was sent by the party to Moscow , where he worked as a lecturer at the International Lenin School and became head of its Austrian sector.

As part of the Stalin Purges , he was accused of "deviations" in 1937. Reisberg was then dismissed from school and expelled from the KPÖ. In April 1937 he was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for alleged "anti-Soviet propaganda". Since the actual end of his imprisonment fell in the time after the German attack on the Soviet Union , Reisberg remained imprisoned in an East Siberian camp on the Kolyma until the end of the war .

In 1946 he was able to move to the Kalinin area , but was arrested again in 1949 because he had moved to his wife in Moscow without permission from the authorities. He was again exiled to Eastern Siberia. It was not until 1954 that his sentence was overturned. He returned from exile in European Russia and worked in Kaluga as a German teacher. Reisberg's repatriation to Austria failed because Austria refused to issue him a visa . So he finally accepted a job offer from the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED in Berlin to work in its Lenin department.

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Reisberg's work includes numerous important works on Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. His book February 1934. Backgrounds and Consequences is one of the standard works that deal with the prehistory and course of the events of February 1934. Reisberg was also a specialist in the Second International .

Honors

Fonts

  • Lenin's idea of ​​coexistence will triumph . Dietz, Berlin 1960.
  • Lenin and the unit of action in Germany . Dietz, Berlin 1964.
  • Lenin and the Zimmerwald Movement . Dietz, Berlin 1966.
  • Lenin in 1917 . Dietz, Berlin 1967.
  • February 1934. Background and consequences . Globus, Vienna 1970 (translated into several languages).
  • At the sources of the united front policy. The struggle of the KPD for the unity of action of the German working class in the years 1921 and 1922. A contribution to research on the aid of Lenin and the Comintern for the KPD . Dietz, Berlin 1971.
  • Lenin's relations with the German labor movement . Dietz, Berlin 1970.
  • Lenin's youth . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1973.
  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Documents of his life . Reclam, Leipzig 1977 (2 vols).
  • From the First to the Second International: the implementation of Marxism in the struggle for the restoration of the workers' international . Dietz, Berlin 1980.

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personal data
SURNAME Reisberg, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Boryslaw
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1980
Place of death Berlin