New publications as eBooks*

Proletarian Women’s Movement is different from Bourgeois Women’s Movement, exemplified by Mary Wollstonecraft’s work, focused on issues as Suffragette in bourgeois middle classes, i.e. fighting for voting rights etc..

According to Klara Zetkin, Bourgeois Women’s Movement means that women – together with men – have to fight within their class for identical rights as men. Proletarian Movement asks both together – women and men – in the working class to fight united  to overcome social differences.

In literature the wording Proletarian was / is often seen similar with Socialist, in Germany usually referring either to SPD or to KPD. In our days a more wider definition of Proletarian is more appropriate.

The English language texts provided here are for informational purposes only.
Most titles discussed in this subject are in German.
Foreign titles, if present, are translations into German.
The data in electronic bibliographic records conforming to International University Library Standards are also primarily in German, including titles, collection names, sets, subsets, and related elements.
Accordingly, it is standard practice to present such texts and information in their original German, consistent with the format of its original printed works.

Nicht alle Kaempferinnen unterstuetzten diese Trennung, Lilly Braun beispielsweise nicht. Sie wurde dann auch aus der Proletarischen Frauenbewegung ausgeschlossen, zuvor gab es harte Richtungs-Kaempfe zwischen ihr und Klara Zetkin.

Mit dem Zusammenbruch der SED-Herrschaft der “DDR” im November 1989 wurden auch Archiv-Bestaende in Ost-Berlin zugaenglich. Dort war auch die Privat-Bibliothek von Klara Zetkins gelagert, ca. 50% unserer Werke entstammen der Privat-Bibliothek Klara Zetkins.

In August 1932 Hitler ‘kicked-out’ Klara Zetkin of the German Reichstag, Berlin. At this time she was the elderly President of the Reichstag. Then Klara Zetkin  moved to Moscow and she took her private library with her to Russia.. Since many years she was no longer living in Stuttgart, from there she relocated to Berlin. In the year 1928 she divorced from Zundel. Her two sons were from her first ‘husband”, she wasn’t married with him. Klara Zetkin died shortly thereafter in June 1933. Stalin carried with others her coffin. Klara Zetkin is buried in the Kremlin Wall.

Some times later Klara Zetkin’s private library was transferred from Moscow to East Berlin (GDR), we don’t know the date of this books transport 

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, some of the original works located in East Berlin were found to be in poor ‘physical’ condition.

For our edition, we have incorporated not only the Klara Zetkin privately own titles from her collections, but also materials from 28 additional libraries and archives across Europe.

To our knowledge, this marks the first occasion on which titles previously dispersed throughout various libraries and archives have been consolidated under the collective designation “Proletarian Women’s Movement”.

These original ‘physical’ materials often consisted of brief political pamphlets, which institutions seldom collected in a systematic manner. Moreover, those works that survived both World Wars may now face deterioration due to paper decay or acid corrosion.

The criteria for selecting these hard-to-find, ‘physical’ originals were their significance, rarity, and the physical threat to the originals due to their state of preservation.

We also republished works whose cover page designs reflected the current political debates of the time.

Wir machten keine Konservierungen der ‘physisch’ bedrohten Original-Titel, unsere ebooks sind jedoch Preservation-Massnahmen. Somit muss das ‘physische’ Original nicht mehr zur Hand genommen werden, jenes bleibt vor dem weiteren Nutzer-Zugriff geschont, das “Access”-Werk kann unser eBook-Titel sein.

Damit folgten wir der Aufforderung von Julius Motteler – frueher Foerderer und erster Archivar der Proletarischen Frauenbewegung – welcher sprach: “Sammelt die Bausteine zu einer Geschichte der Proletarischen Frauenbewegung, solange die Dokumente nicht zerfallen und verweht sind”.

Unsere eBooks enthalten also Inhalte der zugrundeliegenden Originalwerke, teilweise inklusive den Original-Umschlagsgestaltungen. Die eBooks wurden in digital verbesserten Faksimile-Seiten unter Beibehaltung des historischen Schriftbildes und Layouts publiziert. Ferner kann der Nutzer ueber manuell / digitale Navigationshilfen je ebook auf spezifische Inhalte bzw. Baende je Titel (falls vorhanden) individuell digital zugegreifen, einschliesslich – wiederum falls vorhanden – dem Inhaltverzeichnis eines Werkes.

Die digitale Erhaltung und systematische Katalogisierung dieser wertvollen Bestände bieten einen nachhaltigen Zugang zu historischen Schriften und ermöglichen eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Bearbeitung. Mit Digitalisierung können Inhalte gesichert und für kommende Generationen zugänglich gemacht werden, ohne die Originale weiter zu gefährden.

Darüber hinaus eröffnen digitale Medien neue Perspektiven für interdisziplinäre Forschung und internationale Kooperationen. Digital Media offers also elegant opportunities for Interdisciplinary researches and International collaborations.

Proletarian Women’s Movement,works originally written in the 19th & early 20th Centuries.

353 Writers / including 64 “Koerperschaften” / Corporations)
ca 900 eBooks (without Periodicals)
approx. 64,000 pages (without Periodicals)

Periodicals:
new published 53 Periodicals as 157 eBooks with approx. 25.000 pages,
for more content details click on Periodicals or visit our SHOP 

Furthermore, you will find in our SHOP additional content information about more 478 eBooks with approx. 30,000 pages containing contents regarding Women’s Organisations.

Electronic Bibliographic records are available

Upon request via our SHOP, we can compile author/title lists

This rare collection – compiled from 28 Archives and Libraries in Europe – support Libarary Developments. And of course researches in Women studies, Sociology, Political subjects, Philosophy, Economics, History, Cultural Studies etc..

Notes:
We have attempted to locate information on the possible authorship of the individual works. Should an authorship error occur, please contact us.
*Information is subject to change at any time and without notice
**Title means bibliographic unit, i.e., one title contains the content of at least one ‘physical’ printed volume. However, depending on the original work, title can also contain contents of two or more ‘physical’ original books and / or Journals/Periodicals.
*** Short titles listed in examples here, are listed in the electronic bibliographical data with its original – eventually – longer title wording.

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Last update: 30 June 2026