Catherine Epstein. The Last Revolut...

Catherine Epstein. The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their hundred Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003. 322 pp ISBN 0-674-01045-0 $2995

Catherine Epstein's collective biography of eight East German communist leaders shields the period from the Weimar Republic to a hardly any years beyond the downfall of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1989 The sum of two units central figures, Walter Ulbricht and his successor Erich Honecker are familiar names, although together with their other comrades a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of remains murky and mysterious to the average westerner. M Epstein has follow in ordered ...