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This study has attempted to examine the key phenomena that served to shape the history of the ‘short twentieth century’ in Europe between 1914 and 1991: the October Revolution, which replaced Russia with the Soviet Union, and the end to any prospect of socialist revolution in Germany by the coming to power of Hitler and the Nazis. The basic intent has been to argue that the pattern of growth of global capital was a much more complex phenomenon than leftist revolutionaries supposed, and that this explains the opposite outcomes of their efforts in the two key social formations.
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See Post, 1996, pp. 183–93, 201–7.
Michels, 1959, p. 212. It should be remembered that this was first written in 1915.
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Post, K. (1997). Conclusions. In: Communists and National Socialists. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14514-0_9
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