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Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands

LC control no.n 81029821
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingKommunistische Partei Deutschlands
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Variant(s)Communist Party of Germany
KPD
K.P.D.
Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ Partii︠a︡ Germanii
Komunistyczna Partia Niemiec
German Communist Party
Vereinigte Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands
Doitsu Kyōsantō
Parti communiste d'Allemagne
P.C.A.
PCA
Partido Comunista de Alemania
See alsoPredecessor: Spartakusbund (Germany)
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Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands
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Other standard no.2016052-5
Special noteNot the same as: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei (see NAR n 50005017)
Found inFischer, Ruth. Stalin and German communism, 1948: introduction (German Communist Party (KPD))
Die rote Fahne, November 23, 1918: title page (Die rote Fahne : Zentralorgan des Spartakusbundes)
Die rote Fahne, January 8, 1919: title page (Die rote Fahne : Zentralorgan der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands (Spartakusbund))
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, 1973 (under Spartakusbund: a radical, left, revolutionary association founded in 1917 by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg; at a party conference of 1918/1919 its name was changed to Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands)
Niedersächsische Arbeiter-Zeitung (Braunschweig, Germany), January 3, 1921: title page (... der Vereinigten Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands)
Honecker, Erich. Rede auf der Festveranstaltung anlässlich des 70. Jahrestages der Gründung der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands, Berlin, 29. Dezember 1988, 1989: title page (... der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands)
Honecker, Erich. Discurso pronunciado en el acto solemne con motivo del 70 aniversario de la fundación del Partido Comunista de Alemania, 1989: title page (Partido Comunista de Alemania)
Kyōsantō no soshiki to kōsei, 1929: title page (Doitsu Kyōsantō) page 7 (Doitsu Kyōsantō; it is a branch of Kyōsantō Intanashonaru [Communist International; x-reference as subdivision not added at this time])
Cent jours de lutte, 1933: title page (P.C.A.) page 21 (Parti communiste d'Allemagne)
German Wikipedia, viewed December 4, 2023 (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands; KPD; the historical Communist Party of Germany; in existence from 1919 to 1956; after World War II, the Communist Party in East Germany was forcibly merged with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to form the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED); the KPD existed in West Germany until it was declared illegal in 1956)
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek online catalog, viewed December 4, 2023 (authorized access point: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Deutsches Reich); other data in authority record: formed at the beginning of 1919 out of a merger between Spartakusbund and Bremer Linksradikale; it was dissolved in 1933, although it continued its activities illegally in the underground)