Arcadius Rudolf Lang Gurland

Arcadius Rudolph Lang Gurland (1 September 1904, Moscow – 27 March, 1979, Darmstadt) was a German political scientist of Russian origin. Born in Moscow in 1904, he lived through the Russian Revolution as a teenager, developing political sympathies with the Mensheviks. He travelled into exile with his parents, settling in Germany where he completed his schooling at the Goethe-Gymnasium in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. He joined the Sozialistische Proletarierjugend, a youth movement close to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). In 1943 he worked with two colleagues from the IfSR, Franz Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer, for a special United States congressional committee established in 1940 to Study Problems of American Small Business. Selected works In German: (1925) Der proletarische Klassenkampf in der Gegenwart: Zur taktischen Orientierung der Sozialdemokratie in der Nachkriegsphase des Kapitalismus (The proletarian class struggle in the present: On the tactical orientation of social democracy in the post-war phase of capitalism) Leipzig:Leipziger Buchdruckerei (1930) Marxismus und Diktatur (Marxism and Dictatorship), Leipzig: Leipziger Buchdruckerei (1931) Das Heute der proletarischen Aktion. Hemmnisse und Wandlungen im Klassenkampf Berlin: E. Laub

In English: (1941) "Technological Trends and Economic Structure under National Socialism ", Studies in Philosophy and Social Science Vol. IX, New York: Institute for Social Research (1943) The Fate of Small Business in Nazi Germany Washington: United States Senate Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business, with Otto Kirchheimer and Franz Neumann Translations: (1960) Motivforschung und Absatzlenkung, German translation of Motivation Research and Marketing Management, Joseph Newman (1957) Boston: Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Division of Research (1960) Amerika – Die Revolution des Jahrhunderts, German translation of La République Americaine, Raymond Bruckberger (1959) Paris: Gallimard (1961) Sigmund Freuds Sendung, German translation of Sigmund Freud's Mission, Erich Fromm (1959)