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Ruth Fischer (11 December 1895 – 13 March 1961) was an Austrian and German Communist, and a co-founder of the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ) in 1918. Along with her partner Arkadi Maslow, she led the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) through both the May 1924 and December 1924 federal elections.
She was the co-founder of the Communist Party of Austria, became famous as the chair of the Communist Party of Germany in the Weimar Republic and, after 1945, was associated with the anti-communist crusade in the United States where she authored the best-selling book Stalin and German Communism.
Fischer, Ruth (1895–1961) German-born American political commentator and scholar, founding member of the Austrian Communist Party and major personality of the German Communist Party in its formative years, who became a fierce anti-Stalinist and was regarded as one of the leading experts on Communism in the Western world.
With an intellectually driven action packed life making any spy-thriller-action film seem banal, if not drab, Ruth Fischer’s archival papers at Harvard are a treasure trove of correspondence.
Mar 24, 2011 · Ruth Fischer (1895-1961), once ranking among Germany's and Europe's most prominent women, is today largely forgotten in the English-speaking world.
FISCHER, RUTH (née Eisler, also known as EIfriede Golke or Friedlaender; 1895–1961), Austrian Communist. Born in Leipzig, Ruth Fischer studied philosophy, politics, and economics at the University of Vienna where her father, Rudolph *Eisler , was a professor of philosophy.
Mar 4, 2009 · In discussing the crucial years before and after the aborted revolution of 1923, Ruth Fischer often writes as though she were still engaged in the factional struggles of that time. She attributes to Trotsky an analysis of the pre-1923 situation that “was regarded as closer to Levi’s than to Lenin’s” (p.177).
