Format:
x, 268 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780198789291
Content:
Internationalist socialism and ethnic nationalism are usually thought of as polar opposites. But for the millions of men and women who made Social Democracy into twentieth-century Europe's most potent political force, they were often mutually reinforcing. 'Workers and Nationalism' explains this apparent paradox by looking at the history of the Social Democratic workers' movement in Habsburg Austria, which was built on the mobilization of German and Czech workers in the Empire's rapidly industrializing regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Lower Austria. Jakub Benes takes the history of socialism out of the realm of theoretical and parliamentary debates and into the streets, city squares, pubs, and clubs of a vibrant but precarious multi-ethnic society. He reveals how ordinary workers became increasingly nationalist as they came to believe that they were the genuine representatives of their ethnic national communities. Their successful campaign to democratize parliamentary elections in 1905-1907 accelerated such thinking rapidly. It also split Social Democracy apart by 1911. Then, during the First World War, many Czech and German workers embraced revolutionary radicalism, alienating them from the regime-friendly socialist leadership. Benes's study is the first to show the profound connection between major political events and the rich culture of the Austrian workers' movement, revealing this culture's utopian and quasi-religious tendencies as well as its left populist nationalism. Based on research in eight archives and numerous libraries in Prague, Vienna, and Brno, 'Workers and Nationalism' fundamentally rethinks the relationship between socialism, nationalism, and democracy in modern Europe
Note:
Literaturangaben
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Hier auch später erschienene unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Dissertationsdaten - dem "Acknowledgments" entnommen
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Dissertation Prag 2008
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780192506306
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Beneš, Jakub S. Workers and nationalism Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017 ISBN 9780191831140
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Political Science
Keywords:
Österreich-Ungarn
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Deutsche
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Tschechen
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Sozialdemokratie
;
Nationalbewusstsein
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Geschichte 1890-1918
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Hochschulschrift
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