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German term or phrase:
Altkommunisten
English translation:
Communist/communist old guard / old-guard communists
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silfilla
Jul 9, 2005 14:11
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A text on the power struggles in the GDR's SED in the 1960s. Altkommunisten refers to the old guard of communists who had been in the resistance against Nazism. I am not sure if Old Communists fits.
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| 4 +11 | the old guard / old-guard communists |
silfilla
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| 4 | Old Communist s/ orthodox Communists |
KARIN ISBELL
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| 3 | Communists from day one |
writeaway
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| 2 | ex-communists |
mustafaer
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Jul 10, 2005 10:17: Ian M-H (X) changed "Field (specific)" from "Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc." to "Government / Politics"
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the old guard / old-guard communists
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=old+communists+GDR+old+guard&btnG=Google+Search
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or, as Kim just suggested (thanks!), *the communist/Communist old guard*
see:
www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=Communist old gu...
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Note added at 12 mins (2005-07-09 14:24:10 GMT)
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or, as Kim just suggested (thanks!), *the communist/Communist old guard*
see:
www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=Communist old gu...
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Kim Metzger
: Or the Communist old guard with Communist capitalized.
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yes (not capitalized works too) ... thanks, Kim!
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RobinB
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thanks, Robin
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Laurens Landkroon
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thanks, Somerset
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Robert Sleigh
: or "die-hard"
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thanks, but IMO *die-hard* also implies a value judgment; Altkommunist just refers to s.o. who was a communist from day one & fought the Nazis :-)
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Marcus Malabad
: Communist old guard
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writeaway
: Communist old guard
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stolley
: The decay of the official communist movement in the post-Lenin period, ...
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Ian M-H (X)
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Juntice (X)
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Bjørn Anthun
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Maria Ferstl
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2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "I had hoped that someone had come across an English text on the Communists of the generation of 1900 in the context of the GDR, or something similar in Czechoslovakia. "
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ex-communists
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Ian M-H (X)
: they were very definitely still communists
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Comment: "As I said, Altkommunisten means a certain generation and the context was before 1989, they were still Communists."
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Communists from day one
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just a thought-those that joined from the beginning and stuck to their convictions.
Comment: "No, it referes to a generation."
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Old Communist s/ orthodox Communists
since the term Old Catholic (Muret Sanders) is the translation for altkatholisch, 'Old Communists' ['Old' would have to be capitalized]could fill the bill as well; 'orthodox Communists' may also be correct. Both terms seem to depict individuals who adhered to the original communist doctrine prior to Stalin, as opposed to the SED-parvenues/climbers/apparatchikis.
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