Vernon Lidtke. The Outlawed Party: Social Democracy in Germany, 1878-1890.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

I – THE EMERGENCE AND EARLY ORIENTATION OF WORKING-CLASS POLITICAL ACTION

II – THE MATURATION OF THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT IN THE EIGHTEEN-SEVENTIES

III – DISINTEGRATION AND RECOVERY

IV – INVITATION FROM THE LEFT: ANARCHISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

V – RADICALS AND MODERATES: TWO VIEWS OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICS

VI – INVITATION FROM THE RIGHT: STATE SOCIALISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

VII – GROWTH OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY CREATES A MAJOR CRISIS FOR THE PARTY

VIII – THE DEEPENED PARLIAMENTARY INVOLVEMENT: ITS RELATIONSHIP TO REVOLUTIONARY EXPECTATIONS AND POLITICAL DEMOCRACY

IX – SOCIAL DEMOCRATS AT BAY

X – THE ST. GALL CONGRESS AND THE SUPREMACY OF AUGUST BEBEL

XI – THE END OF THE SOCIALIST LAW: SOCIAL DEMOCRACY’S VICTORY AND CHALLENGE

XII – THE HERITAGE OF THE SOCIALIST LAW EPOCH FOR SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

APPENDIX A. The Gotha Program, 1875

APPENDIX B. The Erfurt Program, 1891

APPENDIX C. Text of the Socialist Law

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