Format:
1 online resource (469 pages)
ISBN:
9789004449930
Series Statement:
Historical Materialism Book Ser.
Content:
This groundbreaking comparative study rediscovers the socialists of Russia's borderlands, upending conventional interpretations of working-class politics and the Russian Revolution. Researched in eight languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy challenges long-held assumptions by scholars and activists about the dynamics of revolutionary change.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Tables -- Introduction -- 1. Bringing in the Borderlands -- 2. Strategic Continuities and Ruptures -- 3. Method, Structure, Sources -- Chapter 1. The Social Context -- 1. The Workers' Movement -- 2. The Unique Impact of Orthodox Marxism -- 3. Socialist Political Cultures -- Chapter 2. Revolutionary Social Democracy: An Overview -- 1. The ABCs of Revolutionary Social Democracy -- 2. Strategy and Tactics in Germany and Russia -- Chapter 3. Intellectuals and Workers -- 1. Intellectuals and the Tensions of Class Formation -- 2. Intellectuals and Workers (1905-17) -- Chapter 4. Organisation, Mass Action, and Electoral Work -- 1. Socialist Organisation in Finland -- 2. Illegal Organising in Tsarist Russia -- 3. The Bolshevik-Menshevik Split -- 4. The First Mass Strike Debates (1903-04) -- 5. Mass Action and Organisation in 1905 -- 6. Party Organisation and Mass Action (1906-14) -- 7. War and Revolution -- 8. Mass Organisation and Action in Finland: 1917-18 -- Chapter 5. Working-Class Hegemony -- 1. Analysing Liberalism -- 2. Tactics Towards Liberals -- 3. The Bund versus Zionism (1897-1904) -- 4. The PPS and the National Democrats Before 1905 -- 5. Class Independence in Finland -- 6. Early Russian Marxism and Liberals -- 7. Working-Class Hegemony (1905-16) -- 8. Proletarian Hegemony and Liberals (1906-16) -- Chapter 6. Working-Class Unity -- 1. United Front Practices Before 1905 -- 2. Workers' Unity and the 1905 Revolution -- 3. Implementing the United Front (1906-18) -- 4. Disunity in Europe and Poland -- Chapter 7. The Party Question -- 1. The German SPD Model -- 2. Finland's Social Democracy -- 3. The Normalcy of Splits in Underground Russia -- 4. The Split of Polish Socialism -- 5. The Bolshevik-Menshevik Split.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004449923
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004449923
Language:
English
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