The Appeal Of Communism

Question 1

How many votes did the KPD gain between 1928 and 1932

Answer 1

2 million

Question 2

After 1929 what was the KPD forced to concentrate on

Answer 2

More on the unemployed

Set up committees of the unemployed

Stages hunger marches

Fought against benefit cuts

Question 3

What was the KPD ultimate aim

Answer 3

To overthrow the Weimar Republic

Question 4

What did the KPD label the SPD

Answer 4

‘Social Fascists’

Question 5

Strengths of communism

Answer 5

• communist propaganda helped attract membership
• explicit appeals to the unemployed using the Slovak ‘bread and freedom’
• posters that linked the KPD with the USSR and it’s belief in internationalism
• lots of the propaganda attacked the SPD
• support grew reaching peak of 16.9%

Question 6

Weakness of the appeal of communism

Answer 6

• KPD never came close to launching a successful revolution
• failed to attract support outside main industrial areas and had limited support among the women
• KPD forever short of money as a high proportion of members were unemployed