Anson Rabinbach, ed. The Austrian Socialist Experiment. Social Democracy and Austromarxism, 1918-1934.

Contents

Introduction / Anson Rabinbach

PART 1

SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE OF THE FIRST AUSTRIAN REPUBLIC

1 – The Habsburg Heritage: Some Pointers for a Study of the First Austrian Republic / Klemens von Klemperer

2 – The Social and Economic Background of Austria’s Lebensunfähigkeit / Bruce F. Pauley

3 – The Heimwehr and February 1934: Reflections and Questions / C. Earl Edmondson

4 – Writings on Contemporary Austrian History, 1918-1934 / R. John Rath

PART 2

POLITICAL POWER, THE STATE, AND VIOLENCE

5 – Social Democracy and the Political Culture of the First Republic / Melanie. A. Sully

6 – Otto Bauer as an Ambivalent Party Leader / Peter Loewenberg

7 – Austrian Social Democracy: The Image and the Facts / Karl R. Stadler

8 – Learning from the Civil War: The Political System of the First and Second Republics / Anton Pelinka

9 – Strategies of Political Violence: Chance Events and Structural Effects as Causal Factors in the February Rising of the Austrian Social Democrats / Gerhard Botz

PART 3

AUSTROMARXISM AND THE VIENNESE INTELLECTUAL MILIEU

10 – The Austromarxists in «Red» Vienna: Reflections and Recollections / Hans Ziesel

11 – Austromarxism and the Theory of Democracy / Andrew Arato

12 – Cultural Politics in Austria: From Empire to Republic / William J. McGrath

13 – Austrian Intellectuals and the Palace of Justice Fire / David S. Luft

14 – Austrian Social Democracy and the Jewish Question in the First Republic / Jack Jacobs

15 – Jura Soyfer’s Death of a Party / Alfred Pfabigan

16 – Austromarxism on the International Scene / Adolf Sturmthal

PART 4

RED VIENNA: MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM AND CULTURAL POLITICS

17 – Red Vienna: Symbol and Strategy / Anson Rabinbach

18 – Red Vienna: A New Atlantis? / Josef Weidenholzer

19 – The Housing Policy of Social Democracy: Determinants and Consequences / Peter Marouse

20 – Socialist Party Culture and the Realities of Working-Class Life in Red Vienna / Helmut Gruber

PART 5

CONCLUSION:

THE COLLAPSE OF AUSTRIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY, 12 FEBRUARY 1934 — FIFTY YEARS LATER

21 – The Weaknesses of the Socialist Strategy: A Comparative Perspective / Charlee S. Maier